A biography of the English poet, essayist, critic, and lexicographer regarded as an outstanding figure in 18th-century letters.

Writer, rake, wit, traveler, and man-about-town, Boswell went everywhere, knew everyone, and never missed an opportunity to enjoy himself. His journals are compulsively self-revealing.

This title contains the full sweep of the English poetic achievement, from the Anglo-Saxons to the modern poets.