The works of the English poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical / by Samuel Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.

Contributor:

Buckland, James, 1710 or 1711-1790, bookseller.

Davis, Lockyer, 1719-1791, bookseller.

Rivington, J. (John), 1720-1792, bookseller.

Rivington, Charles, 1754-1831, bookseller.

Rivington, Francis, 1745-1822, bookseller.

B. White and Son, bookseller.

T. Payne and Son, bookseller.

Stuart Curran-Joseph Wittreich Milton Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Smith, Robert C. (donor) (copy 1)

Curran, Stuart A. (honoree) (copy 2)

Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor) (copy 2)

Physical Description:

75 volumes : portraits ; 17 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by John Nichols for J. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Son, L. Davis, B. White and Son [and 37 others in London], 1790.

Contents:

v. 1. Lives, Cowley to Otway

v. 2. Lives, Waller to Dryden

v. 3. Lives, Smith to Fenton

v. 4. Lives, Gray to Broome

v. 5. Lives, Pope to Shenstone

v. 6. Lives, Young to Jenyns

v. 7-8. Cowley

v. 9. Cowley (cont.), Denham

v. 10. Milton's Paradise lost

v. 11. Milton's Paradise lost (cont.), Paradise regained

v. 12. Milton's smaller poems

v. 13-14. Butler

v. 15. Rochester, Roscommon, Otway

v. 16. Waller

v. 17. Pomfret, Dorset, Stepney, J. Phillips, Walsh

v. 18-21. Dryden's miscellaneous poems

v. 22-24. Dryden's Virgil

v. 25. Smith, Duke, King

v. 26. King (cont.), Sprat, Halifax

v. 27. Parnell

v. 28. Garth, Rowe

v. 29. Rowe (cont.)

v. 30. Addison

v. 31. Hughes

v. 32. Sheffield, Prior

v. 33. Prior (cont.)

v. 34. Prior (cont.), Congreve

v. 35. Blackmore, Fenton

v. 36-37. Gay

v. 38. Lansdowne

v. 39. Yalden, Ticknell, Hammond

v. 40. Somervile

v. 41. Somervile (cont.), Savage

v. 42-43. Swift

v. 44. Swift (cont.), Broome

v. 45-47. Pope

v. 48-51. Pope's Homer

v. 52. Pitt

v. 53. Pitt's Virgil (cont.)

v. 54. Thomson

v. 55. Thomson (cont.), Watts

v. 56. Watts (cont.)

v. 57. Ambrose Philips, West

v. 58. Collins, Dyer

v. 59. Shenstone

v. 60-62. Young

v. 63. Mallet, Akenside

v. 64. Akenside (cont.), Gray, Lyttelton

v. 65. Moore, Cawthorn

v. 66. Churchill

v. 67. Churchill (cont.), Falconer

v. 68. Lloyd

v. 69. Cunningham, Matthew Green

v. 70. Goldsmith, Paul Whitehead

v. 71. Armstrong, Longhorne

v. 72. Johnson, W. Whitehead

v. 73. W. Whitehead (cont.), Jenyns

v. 74-75. Index.

Notes:

Printer varies: vols. 1-6, 74-75 have: John Nichols ; vols. 7-12 have: H. Hughs ; vols. 13-18, 69-70 have: Rivington & Marshall ; vols. 19-24, 68, 71 have: H. Baldwin ; vols. 25-30, 47 have: A. Strahan ; vols. 31-36 have: J. Davis ; vols. 37-41 have: H. Goldney ; vols. 42-46 have: T. Spilsbury & Son ; vols. 48-51, 63-4 have: R. Blyth; vols. 52-56, 72 have: M. Brown ; vols. 57-62 have: A. Hamilton ; vols. 65-67, 73 have T. Wright ...

Vol. 1-6 contain lives of the poets; v. 74-75, general index.

Local Notes:

Milton Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran.

Penn Libraries copy 1 imperfect: vols. 1-21, 23, 25-39 wanting.

Penn Libraries copy 2 imperfect: v. 10-11 only.

Penn Libraries copy 2: v. 10 has a few ms. pencil annotations; v. 11 has peacock feather laid in.

Cited in:

ESTC T152606

OCLC:

154136076