In this moving biography, Peter Martin assesses Boswell's literary achievements and uncovers the pulsating and dynamic world he thrived in, from the royal courts and the drawing rooms of fashionable ladies and gentlemen to the fleshpots of ...
Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of “the Club,” a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel ...
Elegantly written, candid, and original, Talking at the Gates is a comprehensive account of the life and work of a writer who believed that "the unexamined life is not worth living.""--BOOK JACKET.
No one can read this book without learning a great deal about practices of reading and how they change from one age to the next.'--Lawrence Lipking, Northwestern University
In this study, Hal Gladfelder combines groundbreaking archival research into Cleland’s tumultuous life with incisive readings of his sometimes extravagant, sometimes perverse body of work, positioning him as a central figure in the ...
Unsentimental, opinionated, and quotable, The Lives of the Poets continues to influence the reputations of the writers concerned. It is one of the greatest works of English criticism, but also one of the most humanly diverting.
James Boswell. 1 Sydney Biddulph , contains an excellent mora !, while it inculcates a future state of retribution ... in author is greater in Uncommon parts re- " People , " he remarked , once , who imagine that an private life ...
Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales James Boswell ... in Author . a Hypochondriack , i . 493 , n . 4 ; Doug- las Cause , ii . 57 , n . 2 ; entails his es- tate in ...