Lives of the Poets Volume I

Name: Lives of the Poets Volume I
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ISBN: 9780199284795

ISBN-10: 0199284792

ISBN-13: 9780199284795

Edition: 2006

Authors: Samuel Johnson, Roger Lonsdale

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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 major biographical and critical achievement, Samuel Johnson's last literary project is also one of his most readable and entertaining, written with characteristic eloquence and conviction, and at times with combative trenchancy. Johnson's fifty-two biographies constitute a detailed survey of English poetry from the early seventeenth century down to his own time, with extended discussions of Cowley, Milton, Waller, Dryden, Addison, Prior, Swift, Pope, and Gray. The Lives also include Johnson's memorable biography of the enigmatic Richard…

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List price: $295.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/27/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 464
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.69" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English



Short Titles


Introduction


Cowley


Denham


Milton


Commentary