Word: frederick
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JAMES BOSWELL: THE EARLIER YEARS, by Frederick A. Pottle. Johnson's Boswell comes stunningly to life in this warm portrait of a rakish genius...
JAMES BOSWELL: THE EARLIER YEARS, by Frederick A. Pottle. The man who wrote the first great biography in English becomes himself the subject of one that is rich and delightful...
...arched columns and the massive iron gate are treasures brought from Europe. The rooms opening off the courtyard and beyond are filled with one of the world's richest private collections of Renaissance art: 15th century French tapestries, hand-carved ceilings, and a commode from the palace of Frederick the Great. Evening concerts are held in a 1,500-seat outdoor theater, a short walk away from the main house through a medieval gate from the palace of the Cappellettis (Shakespeare's Capulets) in Verona. The stage of the Venetian theater is built around three dozen 9th century...
JAMES BOSWELL: THE EARLIER YEARS (1740-1769) by Frederick A. Pottle. 606 pages. McGraw-Hill...
...biography was obviously in order, and the first half of one has now been supplied by the man best qualified to write it: Yale's Frederick A. Pottle, 68, who for 37 years has served as custodian and editor of the Boswell papers. With phrases and perceptions long seasoned in sensibility, he builds a warm, complex and radically altered portrait of his subject. The face shows the same old clutter of confusions: arrogance, snobbery, priggery, pushiness, stinginess, grossness, rampant infantilism. But behind the confusions, Pottle perceives the fundamental fear and hunger in the man and, more acutely than...