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The lives of the most eminent English poets : with critical observations on their works / Samuel Johnson ; with an introduction and notes by Roger Lonsdale.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.
- Series:
- Oxford English Texts
- The lives of the most eminent English poets: with critical observations on their works ; 4
- Standardized Title:
- Lives of the English poets
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poets, English--Biography--Early works to 1800.
- Poets, English.
- Poets, English--Early modern, 1500-1700--Biography.
- Poets, English--18th century--Biography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (666 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Lives of the poets
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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
- Contents:
- Intro
- 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
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780191786495
- 0191786497
- 9780191515873
- 0191515876
- OCLC:
- 922903803
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