Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets

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Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets is written by Samuel Johnson and published by Oxford English Texts. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0199284822 (ISBN 10) and 9780199284825 (ISBN 13).

Samuel Johnson's last literary work, the Lives of the Poets, offers a detailed survey of English poetry from the early seventeenth century down to Johnson's own time. Always recognized as a major contribution to English biography and criticism, it is also one of Johnson's most readable and eloquent achievements. This is the first scholarly edition since 1905 and includes a full introduction and critical apparatus. This is volume four of four.