Samuel Johnson by David Nokes
A Life
Drawing on letters and contemporary testimony, this biography follows the great 18th-century lexicographer and moralist from provincial obscurity through poverty, marriage, and illness to literary eminence in London, reappraising the Dictionary, essays, and Lives of the Poets while foregrounding complex bonds with his wife, household, Boswell, and the Thrales. It emphasizes the tensions between piety and combativeness, charity and severity, and the shadow of melancholy and physical tics, challenging the familiar legend to reveal a more vulnerable, volatile, and deeply humane figure.
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- 2009
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