Publisher's Synopsis
This is a biographical investigation into the life and times of Richard Savage, an early-18th-century poet of charismatic personality, but doubtful morals, who died violently and prematurely. Savage was a close friend of the young Samuel Johnson, who wrote "The Life of Savage", one of the greatest short lives in English literature and arguably the first modern biography.;The book investigates the relationship between the men partly through original research, but also through the mediation of Johnson`s "Life of Savage". Thus, the book in some sense is a meditation on biographical knowledge and on the biographer's art.
