The lives of the English poets
Subtitle: and a criticism on their works
By: By Samuel Johnson
Contributors: Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Whitestone, Williams, Colles, Wilson [etc.]
Published: 1779
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Subjects: Early works to 1800; History and criticism; English poetry; Biography; English Poets
Notes: Contents.--[v. 1] Advertisement. Cowley. Waller Milton. Butler. Dryden. Denham. Sprat. Roscommon Rochester. Yalden. Otway, Duke. Dorset. Halifax. Stepney. Walsh. Garth. King. J. Philips. Smith. Pomfret. Hughes.--v. 2. Addison. Blackmore. Sheffield. Granville. Rowe. Tickell. Congreve. Fenton. Prior. Pope Swift.--v. 3. Gay. Broom. Pitt. Parnell. A. Philips. Watts. Savage. Somerville. Thomson. Hammond. Collins. Young. Dyer. Mallet Shenstone. Akenside. Lyttelton. West Gray.