Samuel Johnson [ Art and Literature ]
… and line engraving, 'A literary party at Sir Joshua Reynolds's', © National Portrait Gallery. NPG D14518, 1851. Résumé Johnson was one of the foremost and most controversial literary men of his age, and a leading figure of intellectual and … his lifetime of chronic depression, into which he was capable of falling at any time. James Boswell, in the Life of Samuel Johnson , LL.D. (first published in 1791, seven years after Johnson’s death), reports two particular remarks … of all kinds to help to preserve Johnson’s sanity – a fact of which he was very aware. 1 . James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., ed. R.W. Chapman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998 edn), p. 859. What made Johnson into the …
Celebrity | Conversation | Depression | Clubs | Fame | Gender
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