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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson The world's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1967 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 6 Jul 2011 |
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