Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore and Pope
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore and Pope
                                            
                            By Samuel Johnson
                            
                                6 Mar, 2020                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779–81), alternatively known by the shorter title Lives of the Poets, is a work by Samuel Johnson comprising short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth c
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                                                Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779–81), alternatively known by the shorter title Lives of the Poets, is a work by Samuel Johnson comprising short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century. These were arranged, approximately, by date of death.
From the close of the 18th century, expanded editions and updates of Johnson’s work began to appear. Less