TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Samuel
TI  - Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1
AV  - PR 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
KW  - English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism
KW  - Poets, English -- Biography -- Early works to 1800
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lives_of_the_Most_Eminent_English_Poets; Release date is 2003-11-01; Addison -- Savage -- Swift; Transcribed from the 1888 Cassell & Company edition by Les Bowler; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1" by Samuel Johnson is a collection of biographies written between 1779-81. Commissioned by London publishers to compete with Scottish editions, Johnson crafted biographical sketches and critical assessments of 52 English poets, mostly from the eighteenth century. Though some prefaces began as brief introductions, many expanded into substantial explorations of each poet's life, character, and work. Johnson's judgments proved controversial from publication, with critics challenging his views on Milton, Gray, and Swift, among others. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4679
ER  -