1st Edition
Johnson without Boswell A Contemporary Portrait of Samuel Johnson
Edited By Hugh Kingsmill
Copyright 1940
332 Pages
by
Routledge
332 Pages
by
Routledge
332 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1940, Johnson without Boswell is about Samuel Johnson, the dictator of eighteenth-century English letters. It has become almost axiomatic never to mention that mammoth of wit and wisdom without linking him at least in thought with his great biographer, James Boswell. But there were others who knew him well, and who set down what they knew – among them Johnson himself in his... Read more
Introduction 1. Childhood, Youth and Marriage, 1709-1737 2. In London, 1737-1752 3. In London, 1753-1762 4. After the Pension, 1762-1781 5. The Last Years, 1781-1784 Bibliography Index
Biography
Hugh Kingsmill
