Boswell Finally Got His Boswell; Meet Savage, Johnson’s Johnson
The publication last month of a lively biography, Boswell’s Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson , by Adam Sisman, has resulted in a remarkable critical consensus about 18th-century literature: James Boswell is readable, Samuel Johnson isn’t.
“Johnson’s works seem irrecoverably stranded in their time,” Miranda Seymour writes in the latest Atlantic Read More
