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    Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope
    Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope
    Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope
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    Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope

    By Samuel Johnson

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope
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    Samuel Johnson

    Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784) was an English writer – a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. His works include the biography The Life of Richard Savage, an influential annotated edition of Shakespeare's plays, and the widely read tale Rasselas, the massive and influential Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, and most notably, A Dictionary of the English Language, the definitive British dictionary of its time.

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