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Oct 22, 2020 · The rest of his verse is of a similar quality; naturally he considered himself a great poet. Boswell combined his terrible behavior with a complete lack of shame, faithfully reporting every transgression, every moronic ejaculation, every faux pas.
- Alvaro de Menard
- 2020
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (/ ˈbɒzwɛl, - wəl /; 29 October 1740 (N.S.) [1] – 19 May 1795), was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh.
May 16, 2013 · James Boswell did not meet Dr Johnson, compiler of the first great English Dictionary and arbiter of literary taste, by chance. The young Scot was "super-intelligent, had great literary taste...
Jun 10, 2015 · The 18th-century biographer James Boswell is the central character of a new exploration of the Enlightenment by Robert Zaretsky, who pulls together Boswell's writings with those of his subjects...
- Andrew O'hagan
Oct 25, 2024 · Article History. For long it was believed that Boswell’s private papers had been destroyed shortly after his death, but the bulk of them were recovered in the 1920s at Malahide Castle near Dublin and sold to an American collector, Ralph H. Isham, by Boswell’s great-great-grandson, Lord Talbot de Malahide.
From Utrecht, Boswell traveled to Berlin in the company of the old Jacobite Earl Marischal, friend and counselor of Frederick the Great, but he was never able to meet the king. Passing through Switzerland (December 1764), he secured interviews with both Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Voltaire.
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Young James Boswell was educated at the universities of Edinburgh (1753–9) and Glasgow (1759–60), and his later writings show a serviceable acquaintance with the ancient Roman classics in the original Latin, and a smattering of ancient Greek, but by his own admission he was not a profound scholar, nor of a donnish or academic temperament of ...
