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Article: BOOK REVIEW
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 15, 1994
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ONE OF the most mysterious episodes in Samuel Johnson's life was
his brief but intimate friendship with the poet Richard Savage. The
two men met sometime during the summer of 1737, probably in
Greenwich, and parted company for good when Savage left London for
Wales in July 1739. An intimate friendship, and an "invisible" one
too: there are no extant letters between the pair, no reference to
each other in private journals, and - most bizarre of all - not a
single account from an eyewitness who saw them in each other's
company. And yet, as Richard Holmes reveals in this magnificent
study, their friendship not only made a momentous impression on the
young Johnson, but inspired a biography that ...
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