id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-14470 Morris, James M. Pure Lives (Book Review) 1989-05-01 5 .pdf application/pdf 2439 129 68 Is it finally the duty of the biographer to give us accidents (the mi- nute details of private life, in Dr. Joh~-- / son's words) or substance-or the two in clarified, or at least clarifying, juxtaposi- tion? Whittemore promises in his first paragraph to focus on five collections of early biography: Plu- tarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, Aelfric' s Lives of the Saints, Vasari' s Lives of the Artists, Holinshed' s Chronicles, and Johnson's Lives of the Poets. cache/crl-14470.pdf txt/crl-14470.txt