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1 online resource (xxxiv, 523 pages) |
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Oxford world's classics |
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Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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Contents |
Cowley -- Milton -- Rochester -- Dryden -- Congreve -- Gay -- Savage -- Switft -- Pope -- Gray |
Summary |
If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.'In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as well as the achievements of the leading English poets. The major Lives - of Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope - are memorable cameos of the life of writing in which Johnson is as attentive to human frailty as to literary prowess. The shorter Lives preserve some of Johnson's most piercing, critical ju |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Poets, English -- Biography
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Poets, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Poets, English -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Poets, English
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Poets, English -- Early modern
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Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Lonsdale, Roger.
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Mullan, John, 1958-
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ISBN |
9780191568169 |
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0191568163 |
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