TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Samuel
TI  - Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
AV  - PR 
PY  - 2006///
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 2006-02-01; Cowley -- Denham -- Milton -- Butler -- Rochester -- Roscommon -- Otway -- Waller -- Pomfret -- Dorset -- Stepney -- J. Philips -- Walsh -- Dryden -- Smith -- Duke -- King -- Sprat -- Halifax -- Parnell -- Garth -- Rowe -- Addison -- Hughes -- Sheffield, duke of Buckinghamshire; Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Jayam Subramanian and PG Distributed Proofreaders; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "Lives of the Poets, Volume 1" by Samuel Johnson is a collection of biographies written between 1779-81. This landmark work presents short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 English poets, most from the eighteenth century. Commissioned by London publishers to compete with Scottish editions, Johnson crafted portraits that blend life narratives with character assessments and literary criticism. His judgments sparked immediate controversy—praised for compelling prose yet criticized for prejudiced opinions on Milton, Swift, and the Metaphysical poets, while conspicuously omitting women writers entirely. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9823
ER  -