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How Bozzy gave Johnson a life.(B)(Books)(On Books)
From: The Washington Times
Date: 20010826
Author:Walters, Colin
Byline: Colin Walters
"Come to me, my dear Bozzy," Samuel Johnson wrote in reply to a letter from James Boswell, then in Scotland and feeling sorry for himself, in February, 1781, "and let us be happy as we are. We will go again to the Mitre, and talk old times over."
Adam Sisman is a biographer of A.J.P. Taylor (not the book I reviewed a short time ago, that was Kathleen Burk's life of the historian). Mr. Sisman's "Boswell's Presumptuous Task" is a new departure, being the story of the making of a book and a masterpiece at that. It is a feast for any reader curious ...
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