Lives of the English Poets is probably the only work of Johnson's likely to be read today beyond academic circles. Despite the fact that he was in his sixty-eighth year when he began the task of writing the lives of fifty-two poets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, his `little Lives and little Prefaces' display a wealth of sparkle and critical www.doorway.ru by: Johnson himself wrote in 'I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets'. Always recognized as a major biographical and critical achievement, Samuel Johnson's last literary project is also one of his most readable and entertaining, written with characteristic eloquence and conviction, and at times with combative trenchancy. Samuel Johnson finished an illustrious literary career with a series of biographies of the major English poets up until his time. The series was initiated by bookpublishers, who were interested in preserving their copyrights by publishing new editions of each poet's works, with Johnson's prefaces/5(8).
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The Lives of the Poets. Boxed Set. Samuel Johnson Edited by Roger Lonsdale Oxford English Texts. A major biographical and critical achievement, Samuel Johnson's last literary work is also his most readable and entertaining; The first scholarly edition since George Birkbeck Hill's Oxford edition; Includes full scholarly introduction and critical appartus. The Lives of the Poets was the crowning achievement of Samuel Johnson’s rich and varied literary life. Initially planned as a series of rapid-fire prefaces introducing separate volumes on English poets, Johnson’s project evolved into a comprehensive biographical and critical survey of English poetry from the time of Cowley to the time of Gray. The Lives of the Poets: Boxed Set (Oxford English Texts) (v. ) Johnson, Samuel. Published by Oxford University Press, ISBN ISBN
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