Lives of the Poets: Addison, Savage, and Swift
Lives of the Poets: Addison, Savage, and Swift
By Samuel Johnson
6 Mar, 2020
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779–81), alternatively known by the shorter title Lives of the Poets, is a work by Samuel Johnson comprising short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth c
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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779–81), alternatively known by the shorter title Lives of the Poets, is a work by Samuel Johnson comprising short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century. These were arranged, approximately, by date of death.
From the close of the 18th century, expanded editions and updates of Johnson’s work began to appear. Less