Title Lives of the most eminent english poets

Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (pages .) Series Oxford English Texts ; v. 4 Oxford English texts. Contents CONTENTS TO VOLUME IV -- Lives in Alphabetical Order -- Short Titles -- POPE -- PITT -- THOMSON -- WATTS -- A. PHILIPS -- WEST -- COLLINS -- DYER -- SHENSTONE -- YOUNG -- MALLET -- AKENSIDE -- GRAY -- LYTTELTON -- Textual Notes -- Commentary -- APPENDICES -- A: Sequences of Johnson�s Poets -- B: Some Early Periodical Reactions 1779�1783 -- C: Spelling and Capitalization in the Prefaces and Lives -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S Tu -- v -- w -- x -- y Summary Samuel Johnson's last literary work, the Lives of the Poets, offers a detailed survey of English poetry from the early seventeenth century down to Johnson's own time. Always recognized as a major contribution to English biography and criticism, it is also one of Johnson's most readable and eloquent achievements. This is the first scholarly edition since 1905 and includes a full introduction and critical apparatus. This is volume four of four. - ;Johnson himself wrote in 1782: 'I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets'. Always recognized as a Subject Poets, English -- Biography -- Early works to 1800 Poets, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography Poets, English -- 18th century -- Biography Poets, English Poets, English -- Early modern -- Biography Genre/Form Biographies Early works Form Electronic book ISBN 0191515876 9780191515873

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