Boswell and Johnson
An edition of Boswell and Johnson (2013)
Their Companions and Contemporaries
By J. F. Waller
Publish Date
2013
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Language
eng
Pages
188
Description:
"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.