Savage, Richard | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
BIOGRAPHIES
Anonymous. “The Life of Richard Savage.” In The Poetical Works of Richard Savage, pp. 3-96. New York: William A. Davies, 1805.
Detailed biography of Richard Savage, including brief discussions of his works.
Tracy, Clarence. The Artificial Bastard: A Biography of Richard Savage, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1953, 164 p.
The standard scholarly biography of Savage.
Whitehead, Charles. Richard Savage: A Romance of Real Life. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1896, 466 p.
A late-nineteenth century biography of Savage, which counters the claim made by James Boswell that Savage was an impostor.
CRITICISM
Bundock, Michael. “Johnson's ‘Vile Melancholy’ and The Life of Savage.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 11 (2000): 177-85.
Response to the 1998 article by Aaron Stavisky, arguing that even...
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