SOURCE: "Introduction," in New Light on Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of "The Life of Johnson," edited by Greg Clingham, pp. 1-8. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
In the following introduction to a collection of essays about Boswell as a biographer, Daiches describes the paradoxes between Boswell's life and character, and his literary style and portrayal of himself.
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