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Lives of the most eminent English poets : with critical observations on their works by Samuel Johnson ; with notes corrective and explanatory, by Peter Cunningham, F.S.A., and a life of the author, by Thomas Babington Macaulay
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Gff .355
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poets, English.
- English poetry--Early modern (to 1700)--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- English poetry--18th century--History and criticism.
- Poets.
- Local Subjects:
- Poets, English.
- Poets.
- Physical Description:
- 2 v. : ill. (port.) ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, PA : Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger., 1857.
- Contents:
- v.1. Editor's preface. Life of Samuel Johnson. Abraham Cowley. Sir John Denham. John Milton. Samuel Butler. Earl of Rochester. Earl of Roscommon. Thomas Otway. Edmund Waller. John Dryden. John Pomfret. Earl of Dorset. George Stepney. John Philips. William Walsh. Edmund Smith. Richard Duke. William King. Thomas Sprat. Earl of Halifax. Thomas Parnell. Samuel Garth. Nicholas Rowe, Joseph Addison. John Hughes. John Sheffield, duke of Buckinghamshire. Matthew Prior
- v.2. William Congreve. Sir Richard Blackmore. Elijah Fenton. John Gay. George Granville, lord Lansdown. Thomas Yalden. Thomas Tickell. James Hammond. . William Somerville. Richard Savage. Alexander Pope. Jonathan Swift. William Broome. Christopher Pitt. James Thomson. Isaac Watts. Ambrose Philips. Gilbert West. William Collins. John Dyer.
- Notes:
- William Shenstone. Edward Young. David Mallet. Mark Akenside. Lord Lyttleton. Thomas Gray. Additional notes. Index.
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