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Bewigged, muscular and for his day unusually tall, adorned in soiled rumpled clothes, beset by involuntary tics, opinionated, powered in his conversation by a prodigous memory and intellect, Samuel Johnson is one of the greatest figures of English Literature, perhaps the most quoted English writer after
Bewigged, muscular and for his day unusually tall, adorned in soiled rumpled clothes, beset by involuntary tics, opinionated, powered in his conversation by a prodigous memory and intellect, Samuel Johnson is one of the greatest figures of English Literature, perhaps the most quoted English writer after Shakespeare. This new biography, the frist substantial one for thirty years,illuminates the Johnson that James Boswell, Johnson's famous biographer, never knew: the awkward and suffering youth, the unsuccessful school master, the eccentric marriage, the early years in London in the 1740's scratching a living, the epic struggle to produce the Dictionary. He was in many ways very much the outsider. These aspects of Johnson radically modify the conventional picture of him as the supremely confident dispenser of robust commonsense.
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