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An Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers (1744) was the first major…

Samuel Johnson wrote the Life of Richard Savage before his later Lives of the Poets. Boswell subsequently became Johnson’s biographer rather than the author of this 1744 work.

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An Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers (1744) was the first major biography published by ______.

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Samuel Johnson wrote the Life of Richard Savage before his later Lives of the Poets. Boswell subsequently became Johnson’s biographer rather than the author of this 1744 work.

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