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Genre/Form: | Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc Early works Extra-illustrated copies (Provenance) Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784. Lives of the most eminent English poets. London, Printed for C. Bathurst, [etc.] 1783 (OCoLC)656902040 |
Material Type: | Biography, Manuscript |
Document Type: | Book, Archival Material |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Samuel Johnson; Joshua Reynolds, Sir; Thomas Trotter; Charles Bathurst; R B Adam; E Miller; Amy Lowell; Lucas Pepys, Sir; Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library) |
OCLC Number: | 1036223563 |
Notes: | Portrait engraved by T. Trotter after Sir Joshua Reynolds. |
Description: | 4 volumes : portrait ; 23 cm (8vo) |
Contents: | V. 1. Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler. Rochester. Roscommon. Otway. Waller. Pomfret. Dorset. Stepney. J. Philips. Walsh -- v. 2. Dryden. Smith. Duke. King. Sprat. Halifax. Parnell. Garth. Rowe. Addison. Hughes. Sheffield -- v. 3. Prior. Congreve. Blackmore. Fenton. Gay. Granville. Yalden. Tickell. Hammond. Somervile. Savage. Swift. Broome -- v. 4. Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A. Philips. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Young. Mallet. Akenside. Gray. Lyttelton. |
Other Titles: | Lives of the English poets. |
Responsibility: | by Samuel Johnson ; in four volumes. |
Abstract:
Comprises short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 English poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century.
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