Boswell and Johnson - Their Companions and Contemporaries

Boswell and Johnson are two names that may well be placed together: a great artist and his great subject; indeed the name of the one ever recalls that of the other. If Boswell owes all the permanency of his fame to Johnson, Johnson owes not a little of his to Boswell. The finest and the wisest table-talk that English literature possesses has been preserved by the faithfullest and ablest of chroniclers. This volume attempts no new life of either. The author''s aim has been to accomplish a pleasant and instructive picture of the great man of the Eighteenth Century - of his mind, his manners, his habits - his intercourse with, and influence upon, his friends, his companions, and his contemporaries.>

List of contents

Chapter I. The Club
Chapter II. Boswell
Chapter III. Johnson
Chapter IV. Landed at Last
Chapter V. Johnson's Place in Literature
Chapter VI. Johnson's Contemporaries and Companions

Product details

• Authors: J F Waller, J. F. Waller, John Francis Waller, Waller J. F.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.11.2013
• EAN: 9781472514509
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-1450-9
• No. of pages: 188
• Series: Bloomsbury Academic Collection; Bloomsbury Academic Collection; Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800