Samuel Johnson’s Lives of Poets (1781) was originally a series of introductions to the poets he wrote…
The original series is Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets. The other titles approximate later descriptive labels rather than that…
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Samuel Johnson’s Lives of Poets (1781) was originally a series of introductions to the poets he wrote for a group of London publishers. They were collected as:
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The original series is Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets. The other titles approximate later descriptive labels rather than that collected heading.
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