Great piece! It brought a spicy question to my mind: was Boswell a better writer than Johnson? Boswell's biography of the great man is widely read and loved, but how many people love, say, The Vanity of Human Wishes?
Thank you. Not sure I can go that far! They are very different writers of course. Boswell was a good diarist but again that’s a different sort of thing. Boswell certainly more read.
Great piece! It brought a spicy question to my mind: was Boswell a better writer than Johnson? Boswell's biography of the great man is widely read and loved, but how many people love, say, The Vanity of Human Wishes?
Thank you. Not sure I can go that far! They are very different writers of course. Boswell was a good diarist but again that’s a different sort of thing. Boswell certainly more read.