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Two new biographies celebrate Samuel Johnson’s tercentenary.
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FYI, I'd recommend not to bother with Martin's - it's shockingly tedious and poorly written. Meyers' biog is engaging and thoughtful, as are all his biogs of literary subjects.
The greatest biographies and studies of this great man remain those by:
James Boswell (to this day, probably the most famous, renowned biography of any person, living or dead). I confess I found it really only became alive from 1763 onwards, when Boswell first met him and then began scrupulously to take detailed notes of - he claimed - verbatim conversations with Johnson - so many of the best anecdotes about Johnson and situations are those where Boswell was in attendance.
W. Jackson Bate
James Clifford
John Wain
Christopher Hibbert
John Hawkins
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