Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets

Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets

Author: Samuel Johnson

Publisher: Oxford English Texts

Published: 2006-02-16

Total Pages: 666

ISBN-13: 0199284822

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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.