| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiv, 523 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Oxford world's classics
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Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Cowley -- Milton -- Rochester -- Dryden -- Congreve -- Gay -- Savage -- Switft -- Pope -- Gray. |
| Summary |
If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.'In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as well as the achievements of the leading English poets. The major Lives - of Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope - are memorable cameos of the life of writing in which Johnson is as attentive to human frailty as to literary prowess. The shorter Lives preserve some of Johnson's most piercing, critical ju. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Poets, English -- Biography.
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Poets, English -- Biography. |
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Poets, English -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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Poets, English. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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1500-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Lonsdale, Roger.
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Mullan, John, 1958-
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| Added Title |
Lives of the English poets. Selections https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014070185
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784. Lives of the English poets. Selections. Lives of the poets. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009 9780199226740 0199226741 (OCoLC)246896497 |
| ISBN |
9780191568169 (electronic book) |
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0191568163 (electronic book) |
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9780199226740 (paperback) |
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0199226741 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
9786612268526 |
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