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Genre/Form: | Biography Early works to 1800 Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Samuel Johnson |
ISBN: | 1406796204 9781406796209 |
OCLC Number: | 224070748 |
Notes: | Originally published by F. Warne & Co. 187- |
Description: | iv, [ix]-xxiv, 588 pages ; 22 cm. |
Contents: | Abraham Cowley, 1618-1667 -- Sir John Denham, 1615-1668 -- John Milton, 1608-1674 -- Samuel Butler, 1612 -- 1680 -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, 1647-1680 -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1634 -- 1684 -- Thomas Otway, 1651-1685 -- Edmund Waller, 1605-1687 -- John Pomfret, 1667-1703 -- Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset, 1638-1706 -- George Stepney, 1663-1708 -- William Walsh, 1663- 1708 -- John Dryden, 1631-1700 -- Edmund Smith -- RIchard Duke, 1668-1711 -- William King, 1663-1712 -- Thomas Sprat, 1636-1712 -- Charles Montague, Earl of Halifax, 1661-1715 -- Thomas Parnell, 1679-1718 -- Samuel Garth, 1670-1719 -- Nicholas Rowe, 1678-1718 -- Joseph Addison, 1672-1719 -- John Hughes, 1677-1720 -- John Sheffield, Duke of Buckinham, 1649-1721 -- Matthew Prior, 1664-1721 -- William Congreve, 1670-1729 -- Sir Richard Blackmore, 1658-1729 -- Elijah Fenton, 1685-1730 -- John Gay, 1688-1732 -- George Granville, Lord Lansdown, 1665-1735 -- Thomas Yalden, 1671-1736 -- Thomas Tickell, 1686-1740 -- James Hammond, 1710-1742 -- William Somerville, 1692-1742 -- Richard Savage, 1698-1743 -- Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745 -- William Broome, 1689-1745 -- Alexander Pope, 1688-1744 -- Christopher Pitt, 1699-1748 -- James Thomson, 1700-1748 -- Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 -- Ambrose Philips, 1675-1749 -- Gilbert West, 1700-1756 -- William Collins, 1720-1759 -- John Dyer, 1700-1758 -- William Shenstone, 1714-1763 -- Edward Young, 1681-1765 -- David Mallet, 1698 -- 1765 -- Mark Akenside, 1721-1770 -- Thomas Gray, 1716-1771 -- George Lord Lyttelton, 1709-1773 -- The preface to Shakespeare. |
Series Title: | The "Chandos library" |
Responsibility: | by Samuel Johnson, LL. D. With a sketch of the author's life by Sir Walter Scott. |
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