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By Samuel Johnson,Roger Lonsdale,John Mullan

'If a guy is to jot down A Panegyrick, he could continue vices out of sight; but when he professes to jot down A existence, he needs to signify it quite because it was.'

In the final of his significant writings, Samuel Johnson regarded again over the former centuries of English Literature as a way to describe the personalities in addition to the achievements of the top English poets. the foremost Lives - of Milton, Dryden, quick, and Pope - are memorable cameos of the lifetime of writing within which Johnson is as conscious of human frailty as to literary prowess. The shorter Lives safeguard a few of Johnson's such a lot piercing, serious judgements.
Unsentimental, opinionated, and quotable, The Lives of the Poets keeps to persuade the reputations of the writers involved. it's one of many maximum works of English feedback, but additionally the most humanly diverting.

This choice of the Lives of ten of an important poets attracts its textual content from Roger Lonsdale's authoritative entire edition.
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