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The Lives of the English Poets
Author: The Lives of the Poets
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191622737
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as well as the achievements of the leading English poets. The major Lives - of Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope - are memorable cameos of the life of writing in which Johnson is as attentive to human frailty as to literary prowess. The shorter Lives preserve some of Johnson's most piercing, critical judgements. Unsentimental, opinionated, and quotable, The Lives of the Poets continues to influence the reputations of the writers concerned. It is one of the greatest works of English criticism, but also one of the most humanly diverting. This selection of the Lives of ten of the most important poets draws its text from Roger Lonsdale's authoritative complete edition. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on their works
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Fleeting Things
Author: Gerald HammondPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674306257
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Offers new interpretations of poems by Milton, Jonson, Herrick, and Lovelace, and looks at five themes in seventeenth century English poetry.
English Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Jonathan BatePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199569266
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
English Literature: A Very Short Introduction discusses why literature matters, how narrative works, and what is distinctly English about English literature. Jonathan Bate considers how we determine the content of the field, and looks at the three major kinds of imaginative literature - English poetry, English drama and The English novel.
The Cambridge Companion to English Poets
Author: Claude Julien RawsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521874343
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
This volume provides essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.
Lives of the English Poets
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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Lives of the Poets
Author: Louis UntermeyerPublisher: Simon & Schuster
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
A chronologically arranged anthology and history of poetry supplemented with biographies of the poets.
the Bourgeois Poet
Author: Karl ShapiroE.E. Cummings
Author: Catherine ReefPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618568499
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
"A look into the life and poetry of E.E. Cummings."--From source other than the Library of Congress