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Dr Johnson: no sex and much sorrow; Work in progress: Samuel Johnson wrote in short ferocious bursts Picture: BRIDGEMAN ART LIBRARY.
From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20080801
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Byline: Peter Lewis
SAMUEL JOHNSON by Peter Martin (Weidenfeld & Nicolson ?25)
BEING the subject of the most famous biography in the language does not deter others from trying their hand.
No wonder, for Dr Johnson is endlessly fascinating and our most quoted writer after Shakespeare - though not for what he wrote, but for what he said.
Peter Martin has already written a fine biography of James Boswell. Now he takes on Boswell's quarry.
Boswell knew Johnson only in the days of his fame.
Martin reminds us what a long and discouraging struggle he undertook ...
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