{"product_id":"9780679757702","title":"Doctor Johnson and Mister Savage","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this outstanding, eminently readable work of literary scholarship, Holmes explores the enigmatic friendship between Samuel Johnson and the poet Richard Savage, whom Johnson memorialized in \u003ci\u003eLives of the Poets\u003c\/i\u003e. Synthesizing a wide array of contradictory historical sources, from Johnson’s \u003ci\u003eLife of Savage\u003c\/i\u003e to Boswell’s \u003ci\u003eLife of Johnson\u003c\/i\u003e, the correspondence of Johnson’s contemporaries and modern scholarship, Holmes shows that Savage was a notorious and alluring figure when Johnson first arrived in London in 1737. . . .  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Holmes enlivens his study with keen insights into the art of biography and evocative glimpses into the professional literary industry of 18th-century London: its oppositional politics, literary journals and Grub Street coffee houses bustling with impoverished writers.”—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “In the course of explaining how and why Johnson told his story as he did, Holmes provides a fairly full biography of Savage, the first book-length study since Clarence Tracy’s \u003ci\u003eThe Artificial Bastard\u003c\/i\u003e (1953). Holmes’ book . . . is at once learned and a pleasure to read.”—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019775820016,"sku":"9780679757702","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780679757702_p0.jpg?v=1763608757","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780679757702","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}