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| Samuel Johnson (1709-84), the son of a bookseller, was born at Lichfield and educated at the Grammar School there, and at Pembroke College, Oxford. After working as a schoolmaster, he came to London with David Garrick in 1737. He published the Rambler (1750-52) and his Dictionary (1775). The Lives of the Poets was commissioned in 1777 by a group of London booksellers as a series of brief biographical prefaces to selections form English poets. The first twenty-two appeared in 1779, and the whole was completed in 1781. This volume includes the famous essay on Cowley, as well as those on Milton, Dryden, Addison and Rochester. A pocket sized collection of biographies of English Poets with an introduction by Arthur Waugh. Contents of volume 1: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler. Rochester. Roscommon. Otway. Waller. Pomfret. Dorset. Stepney. Philips, J. Walsh. Dryden. Smith. Duke. King. Sprat. Halifax. Parnell. Garth. ROwe. Addison. Hughes. Sheffield.  Ir al inicio |
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