The Life of Samuel Johnson: Introduction by Claude RawsonKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015. nov. 24. - 1344 oldal One of the greatest and most compelling of all biographies in literature had its beginnings on a fateful day in London in 1763, when young James Boswell determinedly attached himself to the dominant literary figure of his age—the splendidly humane, devastatingly witty, often troubled Dr. Samuel Johnson. What followed was one of the most famous of literary friendships, one that Boswell carefully documented over the years and eventually made the basis of an extraordinarily vivid group portrait. |
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... Goldsmith, Langton, Boswell's friend William Temple, Dr Henry Mayo ('a dissenting minister'), and the Rev. Augustus Toplady, the hymn writer. Goldsmith was on the fringes of the conversation and, as usual, was trying to get noticed ...
... Goldsmith made no reply, but continued in the company for some time. Goldsmith's biographer Forster suggests that there may have been a specific reason for Goldsmith to leave early that particular day, so that he originally picked up ...
... Goldsmith came to grief. There the plotting is more precise, and involves a programmed manipulation of the chief personality. The beginnings are similar: 'I introduced the subject of toleration', 'I introduced Aristotle's doctrine of ...
... Goldsmith differ from these episodes in that their peculiar excellence seems to reside more in the telling of the story than in the staging of the event. The two are never separable in Boswell, and even the Goldsmith scenes are the ...
... Goldsmith, both damaging and endearing, comes over sufficient and complete. They are Boswell at his writerly best. That is the good news. The bad news, of course, is that he won't leave it alone. For four ensuing paragraphs, he takes it ...