The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets is Samuel Johnson’s major biographical and critical study of 17th- and 18th-century English poets, influential for its incisive literary judgments and character portraits.

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instanceOf biographical work
essay collection
literary criticism
alsoKnownAs Lives of the Poets
associatedWithMovement neoclassicism
author Samuel Johnson
commissionedBy London booksellers
commissionedFor edition of English poets
countryOfOrigin Kingdom of Great Britain
criticalApproach historical criticism
moral criticism
focusesOnPeriod 17th century English poetry
18th century English poetry
genre criticism
literary biography
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surface form: Life of Alexander Pope

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surface form: Life of Edmund Waller

Life of Edward Young
Life of Isaac Watts
James Thomson
surface form: Life of James Thomson

Life of John Denham
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Life of John Gay
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surface form: Life of John Milton

Life of John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham
Life of Jonathan Swift
Joseph Addison
surface form: Life of Joseph Addison

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surface form: Life of Matthew Prior

Nicholas Rowe
surface form: Life of Nicholas Rowe

Life of Oliver Goldsmith
Life of Samuel Butler
Life of Sir Richard Blackmore
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets self-linksurface differs
surface form: Life of Thomas Gray

Life of Thomas Otway
Life of Thomas Parnell
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surface form: Life of William Collins

Life of William Congreve
influenced later English literary criticism
language English
literaryPeriod Augustan literature
medium prose
notableFor incisive literary judgments
vivid character portraits
placeInAuthorOeuvre major critical work of Samuel Johnson
publicationCentury 18th century
subject English poetry
English poets
biography
literary criticism

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