The lives of the poets : a selection / Samuel Johnson ; text edited by Roger Lonsdale ; selected with an introduction and notes by John Mullan.

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Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784

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TextSeries: Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (xxxiv, 523 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780191568169
0191568163

Uniform titles:

Lives of the English poets. Selections

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Lives of the poets.DDC classification:

821.009 22

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PR553 .J7 2009eb

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Contents:

Cowley -- Milton -- Rochester -- Dryden -- Congreve -- Gay -- Savage -- Switft -- Pope -- Gray.

Summary: If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.'In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as well as the achievements of the leading English poets. The major Lives - of Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope - are memorable cameos of the life of writing in which Johnson is as attentive to human frailty as to literary prowess. The shorter Lives preserve some of Johnson's most piercing, critical ju.

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Cowley -- Milton -- Rochester -- Dryden -- Congreve -- Gay -- Savage -- Switft -- Pope -- Gray.

If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.'In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as well as the achievements of the leading English poets. The major Lives - of Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope - are memorable cameos of the life of writing in which Johnson is as attentive to human frailty as to literary prowess. The shorter Lives preserve some of Johnson's most piercing, critical ju.

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