[Gutenberg 5101] • Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope

[Gutenberg 5101] • Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope

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Table of Contents

Samuel Johnson Biography

Novella :: Biographies :: Essays :: Play :: Poetry

Novella

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia 1759

Biographies

Lives of the Poets (Addison, Savage, Swift, Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope, Waller, Milton Cowley, King, Halifax, Parnell, Garth, Rowe, Gay, Tickell, Somervile, Thomson, Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, Young, Mallet, Akenside, Gray, Lyttelton) 1779–81

Notes to Shakespeare Vol. I Comedies 1765

Preface to Shakespeare 1765

Essays and periodicals

The Adventurer 1753–54

The Idler 1758–60

The Rambler 1750–52 

A Grammar of the English Tongue

A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland 1775

Parlimentary Debates I

Parlimentary Debates II

Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language 1755

Play

Irene: A Historical Tragedy

Poetry

London 1738

Prologue at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury Lane and other poems

The Vanity of Human Wishes 1749