Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope"Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope" by Samuel Johnson contains short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century. These were arranged, approximately, by the date of death. Abraham Cowley, Sir John Denham, John Milton, Samuel Butler, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, Thomas Otway, Edmund Waller, and John Pomfret are just some of the honored poets. |
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... compositions , the " Carmen Seculare , " in which he exhausts all his powers of celebration . I mean not to accuse him of flattery ; he probably thought all that he writ , and retained as much veracity as can be properly exacted from a ...
... compositions , the " Carmen Seculare , " in which he exhausts all his powers of celebration . I mean not to accuse him of flattery ; he probably thought all that he writ , and retained as much veracity as can be properly exacted from a ...
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... composition produced by that event which is now remembered. Everything has its day. Through the reigns of William and Anne no prosperous event passed undignified by poetry. In the last war, when France was disgraced and overpowered in ...
... composition produced by that event which is now remembered. Everything has its day. Through the reigns of William and Anne no prosperous event passed undignified by poetry. In the last war, when France was disgraced and overpowered in ...
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