Lives Of The English Poets
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Few works in the English literary canon offer as intimate and authoritative a portrait of an age's greatest poets as Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets, a monumental collection of critical biographies that forever shaped how we understand the men who defined English verse. Selected and edited by Robert Montagu for The Folio Society, this elegantly curated edition presents Johnson's incisive portraits of poets including Milton, Dryden, Pope, Gray, Cowley, Congreve, Gay, Otway, Shenstone, Rochester, and Thomson — chronicling their lives, their craft, and their place in the grand tradition of English letters. Johnson's prose is a force unto itself: authoritative, wry, and unapologetically opinionated, it instructs the reader not merely in biographical fact but in the very art of literary judgment. His critical voice — simultaneously generous and devastating — illuminates the tension between poetic genius and human frailty, illustrating how each poet both shaped and was shaped by his era. A landmark of 18th-century letters, this Folio Society edition brings Johnson's enduring masterwork to a new generation of readers, leaving one to wonder: what might the great critic have made of those who came after?
Author: Samuel Johnson
Format: Hardback
Published: 1965, The Folio Society
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Few works in the English literary canon offer as intimate and authoritative a portrait of an age's greatest poets as Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets, a monumental collection of critical biographies that forever shaped how we understand the men who defined English verse. Selected and edited by Robert Montagu for The Folio Society, this elegantly curated edition presents Johnson's incisive portraits of poets including Milton, Dryden, Pope, Gray, Cowley, Congreve, Gay, Otway, Shenstone, Rochester, and Thomson — chronicling their lives, their craft, and their place in the grand tradition of English letters. Johnson's prose is a force unto itself: authoritative, wry, and unapologetically opinionated, it instructs the reader not merely in biographical fact but in the very art of literary judgment. His critical voice — simultaneously generous and devastating — illuminates the tension between poetic genius and human frailty, illustrating how each poet both shaped and was shaped by his era. A landmark of 18th-century letters, this Folio Society edition brings Johnson's enduring masterwork to a new generation of readers, leaving one to wonder: what might the great critic have made of those who came after?