The Lives of the Poets
Author | : Samuel Johnson |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2009-05-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0191622737 |
'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 Johnson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1819 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : |
The Cambridge Companion to English Poets
Author | : Claude Julien Rawson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 581 |
Release | : 2011-01-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521874343 |
This volume provides essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.
The Six Chief Lives
Author | : Samuel Johnson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : |
English Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Author | : Jonathan Bate |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2010-10-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199569266 |
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.
Fleeting Things
Author | : Gerald Hammond |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780674306257 |
Offers new interpretations of poems by Milton, Jonson, Herrick, and Lovelace, and looks at five themes in seventeenth century English poetry.
Lives of the Poets
Author | : Louis Untermeyer |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | : 776 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
A chronologically arranged anthology and history of poetry supplemented with biographies of the poets.