Johnson On Savage
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| Originally published | 1769 |
| Authors | Richard Holmes |
| Samuel Johnson | |
| Genres | Biography |
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| ID | 3074049 |
About Johnson On Savage
The Life of Mr Richard Savage was the first important book by a then-unknown Grub Street hack, Samuel Johnson. Richard Savage (1697—1743) was a poet, playwright, and satirist who claimed to be the illegitimate son of a late earl and to have been denied his inheritance and viciously persecuted by his mother. . . .