The lives of the most eminent English poets
Subtitle: with critical observations on their works, to which are added the Preface to Shak[e]speare and the review of The origin of evil
By: by Samuel Johnson ; with a sketch of the author's life by Sir Walter Scott
Edition: New ed. / with a complete index.
Publisher: Adam, Stevenson
Published: 1880
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 588
Subjects: English Poets; Biography; English poetry; History and criticism; Poètes anglais; Biographies; Poésie anglaise; Histoire et critique; Early modern
Notes: Originally published "Prefaces, biographical and critical" with "The Works of the English poets", London, 1779-1781.