An Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage.by Johnson, Seager, Wilcox New**

The Life of Mr Richard Savage\nby Samuel Johnson\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 5\u20136 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Samuel Johnson\nTitle: The Life of Mr Richard Savage\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History\nPublisher: Broadview Press Ltd\nPublication year: 2016\nISBN-13: 9781554811557\nISBN-10: 1554811554\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nThe Life of Mr Richard Savage was the first important book by a then-unknown Grub Street hack, Samuel Johnson. Richard Savage (1697\u20141743) was a poet, playwright, and satirist who claimed to be the illegitimate son of a late earl and to have been denied his inheritance and viciously persecuted by his mother. He was urbane, charming, a brilliant conversationalist, but also irresponsible and impulsive. His role.