Live of The Most Eminent English Poets, with Critical Observations of Their Works

Live of The Most Eminent English Poets, with Critical Observations of Their Works. With Notes Corrective and Explanatory... In Three Volumes. Poet Biographies of: Abraham Cowley, Sir John Denham, John Milton, Samuel Butler, Earl of Rochester, Thomas Otway, Edmund Waller, John Dryden, John Pomfret, Earl of Dorset, George Stepney, John Philips, William Walsh, Edmund Smith, Richard Duke, William King, Thomas Sprat, Earl of Halifax, Thomas Parnell, Samuel Garth, Nicholas Rowe, Joseph Addison, John Hughes, John Sheffield, Matthew Prior, William Congreve, Sir Richard Blackmore, Elijah Fenton, John Gay, George Granville, Thomas Yalden, Thomas Tickell, James Hammond, William Somervile, Richard Savage, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, William Broome, Christopher Pitt, James Thomson, Isaac Watts, Ambrose Philips, Gilbert West, William Collins, John Dyer, William Shenstone, Edward Young, David Mallet, Lord Lyttelton, and Thomas Gray.

Author: Johnson, Samuel

8vo.(5.25" x 8.25")1854. Johnson, Samuel. London: John Murray. Half brown leather with corners, gilt rule to all leather edges, over marbled boards. Spine with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt title to gilt framed second compartment, gilt vol# in gilt framed third, all other compartments with multiple gilt rule frames. Marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Bookplate of J. Ralph Murray to pastedowns. Mild edgewear to extremities, corners slightly bumped. Vol.II with 1" scuff to front cover marbling, very minor wear to some leather, such as on spine (see pic). Overall, a beautiful set of books.

From Wiki: Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [OS 7 September] – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". In his later life Johnson became a celebrity, and following his death he was increasingly seen to have had a lasting effect on literary criticism, even being claimed to be the one truly great critic of English literature. A prevailing mode of literary theory in the 20th century drew from his views, and he had a lasting impact on biography. Johnson's Dictionary had far-reaching effects on Modern English, and was pre-eminent until the arrival of the Oxford English Dictionary 150 years later. Boswell's Life was selected by Johnson biographer Walter Jackson Bate as "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature".

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