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Jan 29, 2013 · This book examines the fluctuating, close, and complex friendship enjoyed by Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, from the day they met in 1763 to the day when Boswell published his monumental Life of Johnson.
Boswell told Johnson “all [his] perplexity on his account,” and that he “had come determined to fight him, or do anything he pleased.” He saw it gave Johnson “high satisfaction” that he had come to Oxford “on purpose” to see him.
In this book John Radner examines the fluctuating, close, and complex friendship enjoyed by Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, from the day they met in 1763 to t...
Sep 8, 2017 · Boswell's Life of Johnson is the pre-eminent example in English biography of the art that disguises art. This irresistible but elusive masterpiece exists in two distinct versions: the original manuscript (which allows us to reconstruct every stage of composition) and the published text of 1791 (which Boswell revised twice before his death in 1795).
- Bruce Redford
- 2017
May 18, 2013 · The 22-year-old Boswell's first words to 53-year-old Johnson, who was rumoured not to like Scots, were: "Indeed, I come from Scotland, but I cannot help it." The famously witty Johnson replied:...
Boswell had long sought an introduction to Johnson, who had by then won renown as the author of the Dictionary and the Rambler and Idler essays. But while he was taking tea with his friend Davies, Boswell was overtaken by fear to discover that Johnson had just lumbered into the shop.
May 30, 2013 · Two key aspects of the relationship stand out: the extent to which Johnson’s biographical - and autobiographical - efforts in The Lives of the Poets offered an ethics of representation for Boswell, engaged in his biography of Johnson, and the significance of their different versions of the Scottish journey as revealed by Johnson’s letters ...
