The lives of the most eminent English poets
Subtitle: with critical observations on their works
By: by Samuel Johnson.
Contributors: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792.
Series: Library of English literature -- LEL 22140-42.
Publisher: Printed for C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, J. Rivington and sons, T. Davies, T. Payne, L. Davis, W. Owen, B. White, S. Crowder, T. Caslon, T. Longman, B. Law, C. Dilly, J. Dodsley, J. Wilkie, J. Robson, J. Johnson, T. Lowndes, G. Robinson, T. Cadell, J. Nichols, E. Newbery, T. Evans, P. Elmsly, J. Ridley, R. Baldwin, G. Nicol, Leigh and Sotheby, J. Bew, N. Conant, W. Nicoll, J. Murray, S. Hayes, W. Fox, and J. Bowen
Published: 1781
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Poets, English; English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Vol. 3, p. 186 misnumbered "168."

Vol. 4 table of contents incorrectly lists "Waller" instead of Mallet.

Originally published separately as Prefaces, biographical and critical, to the works of the English poets. 10 v. 1779-81.

Frontispiece portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, inc., 1976. 3 microfiches : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 22140-42)

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Table of contents: title: v. 1. Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler. Rochester. Roscommon. Otway. Waller. Pomfret. Dorset. Stepney. Philips. Walsh; title: v. 2. Dryden. Smith. Duke. King. Sprat. Halifax. Parnell. Garth. Rowe. Addison. Hughes. Sheffield; title: v. 3. Prior. Congreve. Blackmore. Fenton. Gay. Granville. Yalden. Tickell. Hammond. Somervile. Savage. Swift. Broome; title: v. 4. Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. Philips. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Young. Mallet. Akenside. Gray. Lyttelton.