TY  - BOOK
AU  - Martin, Peter
TI  - Samuel Johnson: a biography
SN  - 9780297607199
U1  - 920 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - London
PB  - Weidenfeld & Nicolson
KW  - Authors, English
KW  - 18th Century
KW  - Biography
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; PART I:
STAFFORDSHIRE YOUTH
1 Anecdotes of Beggary
2 Stepping on the Duckling
3 Leaping over the Rail
4 Two Benefactors

PART II:
DESPONDENCY AND HOPE
5 Oxford: Wielding a Scholar s Weapon
6 Horrible Imaginings
7 Stirrings in Birmingham
8 Taking a Wife

PART III:
SLOW RISES WORTH
9 Stranger in London
10 Sons of Misery: Finding Richard Savage
11 'Slow Rises Worth by Poverty Depress'd'
12 Wandering in the Midlands

PART IV:
TRIUMPH: THE DICTIONARY YEARS
13 London Revived: A Lion in Harness
14 A Lifeline: the Dictionary
15 Poetic Interludes
16 Tetty and Amorous propensities'
17 The Triumph of the Moralist
18 Darkness Falls
19 Once More Unto the Breach: Back to the Dictionary

PART V:
DEPRESSION, SHAKESPEARE, TRAVEL AND ANGER
20 Stalled
21 'Suffering Chimeras'
22 'Vain and Corrupt Imaginations'
23 Boswell and Mrs Thrale
24 Shakespeare and the Living World
25 Coliseum of Beasts
26 Back to Shakespeare and the Dictionary
27 The Road to the Hebrides
28 Politics and Travel

PART VI
BIOGRAPHY AND 'THE RACE WITH DEATH
29 'A Very Poor Creeper Upon the Earth'
30 Biographical Straitjacket
31 Losing Ground
32 The Last Days

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