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	Samuel Johnson
		English poet, essayist, critic, journalist, lexicographer, conversationalist, regarded as one of the outstanding figures of 18th-century life and letters.
		The writer Ford Madox Ford has considered Johnson the most tragic figures of English literature, "whose still living writings are always ignored, a great honest man who will remain forever a figure of half fun because of the leechlike adoration of the greatest and most ridiculous of all biographers.
		Johnson's biographical essays of English poets were published in 1781 as THE LIVES OF THE POETS.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /samuelj.htm (1434 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: English Literature
		His great dictionary is philology with an autobiographical flavour; his lives of the poets are partly biographical, but mainly critical, while criticism fills a good space in his edition of Shakespeare.
		Living the most retired of lives, and not writing much until over fifty years of age, he has left a body of poetry marked with his own gentle, affectionate, humorous, and sometimes tragic genius, much of which has become classic in English.
		On these two poets when young men, as well as on Southey and others, the altruistic philosophy of the French revolutionary movement had a profound effect, and in Wordsworth's "Prelude" we may see to some extent the extraordinary and stimulating influence of these ideas upon some of the young and generous English minds.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05458a.htm (11531 words)

	english poets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Penn State Archive for Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets is a resource for study, instruction, and entertainment.
		Lives Of The English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley
		In the frontispiece for Living English Poets, Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, Algernon...
	www.english-megasite.com /articles/18/english-poets.html (427 words)

	Lives of the English Poets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Walmsley, who lived in the Bishop's palace, and was registrar of the Ecclesiastical Court, and whom he has so eloquently commemorated in his Lives of the Poets.
		The Lives of Paul Sarpi, Boerhaave, Admirals Drake and Blake, Barretier, Burman, Sydenham, and Roscommon, with the Essay on Epitaphs, and an Essay on the Account of the Conduct of the Duchess of Marlborough, were certainly contributed to his Miscellany by Johnson.
		When he lived in the Temple, it was his custom, however late the hour, not to retire to rest until he had drunk tea with her in her lodgings in Bolt-court.
	www.blackmask.com /thatway/books141c/livpoet.htm (16447 words)

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		Among the English poets, Cowley, Milton, and Pope, might be said "to lisp in numbers;" and have given such early proofs, not only of powers of language, but of comprehension of things, as, to more tardy minds, seems scarcely credible.
		No man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume the dignity of a writer, by descriptions copied from descriptions, by imitations borrowed from imitations, by traditional imagery, and hereditary similes, by readiness of rhyme, and volubility of syllables[18].
		John, the poet, was born in his father's house, at the Spread-eagle, in Bread street, Dec. 9, 1608, between six and seven in the morning.
	www.knowledgerush.com /pg/etext06/7jpt110.txt (16709 words)

	Encyclopedia: Lives of the English Poets
		Other descriptions of Lives of the English Poets
		Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1781) was a work by Samuel Johnson, comprising short biographies of about 50 poets, most of whom were alive in the eighteenth century.
		It is arranged, approximately, by date of death.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lives-of-the-English-Poets (110 words)

	AllRefer.com - decadents (English Literature, 19th Century) - Encyclopedia
		In reaction to the naturalism of the European realists, the decadents espoused that art should exist for its own sake, independent of moral and social concerns.
		The epithet was first applied in the 1880s to a group of self-conscious and flamboyant French poets, who in 1886 published the journal Le DEcadent.
		The decadents venerated Baudelaire and the French symbolists, the group with whom they are often mistakenly identified.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/decadent.html (303 words)

	Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley eBook
		An edition of Poets printed by the Martins in Edinburgh, and sold by Bell in London, was regarded by the London publishers as an interference with the honorary copyright which booksellers then respected among themselves.
		They determined to proceed immediately with an elegant and uniform edition of Poets in whose works they were interested, and they deputed three of their number, William Strahan, Thomas Davies, and Cadell, to wait on Johnson, asking him to write the series of prefatory Lives, and name his own terms.
		Boswell was somewhat disappointed at finding that the selection of the Poets in this series would not be Johnson’s, but that he was to furnish a Preface and Life to any Poet the booksellers pleased.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/5098/1.html (424 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Metaphysical Poets
		It seems that the Scottish writer William Drummond in around 1630 was one of the first to apply the term “metaphysical” to particular poets, but the critic often associated with the seventeenth-century application of the term is John Dryden.
		Thus while it is possible to agree with Johnson that metaphysical poets replace reality with their own idiosyncratic, verbally ingenious versions of it, an alternative way of understanding metaphysical poets would be to say that theirs is a world which is no longer founded upon given truths and unshakeable absolutes.
		Thus all of these poets are in one way or another writing within but also against the metaphysical tendency to cast things into doubt.
	www.litencyc.com /php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1209 (1861 words)

	Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope by Samuel Johnson - Project Gutenberg
		Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope by Samuel Johnson - Project Gutenberg
		Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope by Samuel Johnson
		Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope
	www.gutenberg.org /etext/5101 (153 words)

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		There are sections with English, Irish, American books, literature, history, religion, and it makes me shiver to think I can come here anytime I like and read anything as long as I like if I don't snore.
		I have The Lives of the English Poets, Mr.
		You may have The Lives of the English Poets under your oxter, young fellow, but you don't have them in your head so go home and read.
	www.cnn.com /books/beginnings/9909/tis.03/index.html (1331 words)

	Searchengine.net : Biography of English Poets
		September 14th, 2005 - we have 119 poets, 7502 poems and 7156 comments.
		Fair or not, Brooke is remembered as a "war poet" who inspired...
		while his brother Edward Herbert, the noted philosopher and poet, was raised to the...
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	UPNE \| Lives of the Modern Poets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Pritchard, William H. A classic study of nine modern poets by a major critic and biographer.
		"Lives of the Modern Poets reflects a lifetime's consideration of the subject.
		WILLIAM H. PRITCHARD is Henry Clay Folger Professor of English at Amherst College.
	www.upne.com /0-87451-787-7.html (170 words)

	The San Antonio College LitWeb Samuel Johnson Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language (1747).
		A Dictionary of the English Language (1755; 1773).
		Minus the works themselves, this work is known as The Lives of the English Poets.
	www.accd.edu /sac/english/bailey/johnson.htm (170 words)

	Matthew Prior (1664-1721) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		>Matthew Prior > Lives of the English Poets
		Detail of Illustration from Works of the English Poets with prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson.
		The Penn State Archive of Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets.
	www.hn.psu.edu /Faculty/KKemmerer/poets/prior/namur.html (105 words)

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		He lived at a time when the rage of party detected all which it was any man's interest to hide; and, as little ill is heard of Prior, it is certain that not much was known.
		Blackmore, therefore, was made a poet not by necessity but inclination, and wrote not for a livelihood but for fame; or, if he may tell his own motives, for a nobler purpose, to engage poetry in the cause of virtue.
		Cowley, Milton, and Pope are distinguished among the English poets by the early exertion of their powers, but the works of Cowley alone were published in his childhood, and, therefore, of him only can it be certain that his puerile performances received no improvement from his maturer studies.
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	Johnson, "Life of Milton"
		But their peculiarity is not excellence: if they differ from verses of others, they differ for the worse; for they are too often distinguished by repulsive harshness; the combinations of words are new, but they are not pleasing; the rhymes and epithets seem to be laboriously sought and violently applied.
		Nor is he yet a poet till he has attained the whole extension of his language, distinguished all the delicacies of phrase, and all the colours of words, and learned to adjust their different sounds to all the varieties of metrical modulation.
		The ancient epick poets, wanting the light of Revelation, were very unskilful teachers of virtue: their principal characters may be great, but they are not amiable.
	www.andromeda.rutgers.edu /~jlynch/Texts/milton.html (17891 words)

	English poets, vanderbilt university - The Story of Poetry: Volume 2-English Poets from Skelton to Dryden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		English poets, vanderbilt university - The Story of Poetry: Volume 2-English Poets from Skelton to Dryden
		Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 by the Department of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
		List of English language poets Poets who wrote or write much of their poetry in the English language.
	vanderbilt-university.searchforsearch.com /psfs/vanderbilt-university-english-poets.html (241 words)

	Humbul full record view for -- Samuel Johnson's lives of the English poets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Humbul full record view for -- Samuel Johnson's lives of the English poets
		Samuel Johnson's 'Lives of the English Poets' was one of the most important and influential literary projects of the eighteenth century, helping shape the canon of English Literature and providing a model for future critics.
		Each of the 'Lives' is accompanied by links to other online poems by the selected author.
	www.humbul.ac.uk /output/full2.php?id=10629 (231 words)

	English Poets — Poet Seers
		The Metaphysical poets were a loose collection of British poets who developed a new genre of poetry during the 17th Century.
		This site offers a selection from the works of over 100 the English Poets with an introduction and commentary by Samuel Johnson.
		Lives of the Most Famous English Poets by William Winstanley.
	www.poetseers.org /the_great_poets/english_poets (124 words)

	Penn State Libraries : E-Resource List
		Contains the works of over 200 American poets from 1600 to 1900, with an emphasis on the actual text of the poems and the poet's own notes.
		This is a collection of Middle English texts assembled from works contributed by University of Michigan faculty and from the Oxford Text Archive.
		Searchable in both English and Spanish, with titles in both languages and more than 100,000 articles in Spanish, ENW offers in-depth coverage of a wide range of current and retrospective topics easily accessed using free text and fielded searching.
	www.lias.psu.edu /dball.html (8746 words)

	FreeBooksToRead.com - Lives of the Poets: Waller, Johnson by etc. - Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Poets." "I am engaged," he said, "to write little Lives, and little
		The Project Gutenberg EBook of Lives of the Poets: Waller, Milton, Cowley by Samuel Johnson (#6 in our series by Samuel Johnson) Copyright laws are changing all over the world.
		Be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing this or any other Project Gutenberg eBook.
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	Lives of the Poets: Gay etc by Samuel Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Lives of the Poets: Gay etc by Samuel Johnson
		Of him, who from a poet became a patron of poets, it will be readily believed that the works would not miss of celebration.
		Addison began to praise him early, and was followed or accompanied by other poets; perhaps by almost all, except Swift and Pope, who forbore to flatter him in his life, and after his death spoke of him--Swift with slight censure, and Pope, in the character of Bufo, with acrimonious contempt.
	www.manybooks.net /titles/johnsonsametext03lvgay10.html (218 words)

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		From "Life of Milton," Lives of the English Poets by Samuel Johnson (1779)
		The Sonnets were written in different parts of Milton's life upon different occasions.
		Those little pieces may be dispatched without much anxiety.
	www.sonnets.org /cri1779.htm (99 words)

	Welcome to the Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives at San Francisco State University
		A poet, editor, and writer, he is at work on The Unfolded Fold, an edition of the U.S.-born Canadian poet Robin Blaser's selected talks on poets and poetry from the 1980s and '90s, as well as an edition of the selected writings of Lebanese American writer Etel Adnan.
		As poet Nicole Brossard notes, "To read the poetry of PIERRE JORIS is to listen to the ticking of the words, to observe them preparing to move and alter themselves so as to expose the nature of what a split second of fervor in language can do to meaning." Mr.
		RABIH ALAMEDDINE is a novelist and a painter, born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon, and living in San Francisco.
	www.sfsu.edu /~newlit/readings/readings.htm (13060 words)

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		Johnson's Lives of the English Poets - 3 vols.
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		"In the dream I am sitting on my sofa in the apartment I was living in 4 years ago (cream sofa, white walls) watching the election night news on TV with my fiancé (same age and background, but more centralist in political view).
		Sister Gertrude Clemers lives alone in her convent in Tupper Lake, New York.
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	Amazon.com: Lives of the English Poets: Books: Samuel Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Nowadays, we do not read all of these poets with the same enthusiasm that Johnson did, but his analyses of Milton, Pope, Dryden et al are frequently read to this day.
		He brings similar value to this edition of "The Lives Of The Poets." At least until such time as the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson publishes The Lives Of The Poets, this will remain the standard edition.
		The lives have been superseded in a basic sense by longer more scholarly studies, but they still have their readers, largely I expect, among graduate students of English literature.
	www.amazon.com /Lives-English-Poets-Samuel-Johnson/dp/0460017705 (971 words)

	The Paumanok Review :: Late Winter 2005 :: Volume 6, Edition 1, Number 21
		Sometimes Pam wonders if their lives are on track at all.
		She was a midwestern English lit graduate student with Oriental dreams.
		When I close my eyes and open myself to voices I have known, I hear the poem again in Kovner’s own voice, which, conveying tones and accents of another time and place, recalled the declamations of our greatest poets from Russia and Poland.
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	Johnson, "The Life of Pope"
		[13] In his perusal of the English poets he soon distinguished the versification of Dryden, which he considered as the model to be studied, and was impressed with such veneration for his instructer that he persuaded some friends to take him to the coffeehouse which Dryden frequented, and pleased himself with having seen him.
		Fermor, who presided in an English Convent, mentioned Pope's work with very little gratitude, rather as an insult than an honour; and she may be supposed to have inherited the opinion of her family.
		The filial piety of Pope was in the highest degree amiable and exemplary; his parents had the happiness of living till he was at the summit of poetical reputation, till he was at ease in his fortune, and without a rival in his fame, and found no diminution of his respect or tenderness.
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