Lives of the English Poets / Gay, Thomson, Young, Gray, &c.

by Samuel Johnson

Transcribed from the 1889 Cassell and Company edition by Les Bowler.

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CASSELL’S NATIONAL LIBRARY.

LIVES
OF THE
English Poets

Gay Thomson Young Gray etc.

BY
SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.

CASSELL & COMPANY, Limited:
LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK & MELBOURNE.
1889.

INTRODUCTION.

This volume contains a record of twenty lives, of which only one—that of Edward Young—is treated at length. It completes our edition of Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, from which a few only of the briefest and least important have been omitted.