A classic reissue of Richard Holmes\'s brilliant book on Samuel Johnson\'s friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography.
Strangest of all his achievements was the friendship he inspired in Samuel Jo.
Richard Savage was a poet, playwright and convicted murderer who roamed through the brothels and society salons of Augustan England creating a legend of poetic injustice.
Dr Johnson & Mr Savage is the story of a mysterious eighteenth-century friendship.
A classic reissue of Richard Holmes\'s brilliant book on Samuel Johnson\'s friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography