ENGLISH POETS

BY SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.

EDITED BY

GEORGE BIRKBECK HILL, D.C.L.

SONETIME HONORARY FELLOW OF PEMBROKE COLLEGE, OXFORD

WITH BRIEF MEMOIR OF DR. BIRKBECK HILL, BY HIS NEPHEW

HAROLD SPENCER SCOTT, M.A., NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD

IN THREE VOLUMES

VOL. I

COWLEY-DRYDEN

OXFORD

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

MDCCCC V

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I

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LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER jii

PREFATORY NOTE TO THE PRESENT EDITION

vii

viii

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ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA

BRIEF MEMOIR OF DR. BIRKBECK HILL, WITH BIBLIO-

GRAPHY,

AUTHOR'S ADVERTISEMENT TO THE THIRD EDITION

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CONTENTS OF VOLUME II

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32

38, 39

41

48

SMITH.

Appendix A

DUKE.

KING.

SPRAT.

Appendices B, C .

HALIFAX

Appendix D

PARNELL.

Appendices E to G

GARTH

ROWE

Appendix H

ADDISON

Appendices I to Y.

HUGHES

Appendix Z

SHEFFIELD

Appendices AA to EE

PRIOR.

CONGREVE

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65

78

HAMMOND

SOMERVILE

SAVAGE

Appendices FF to KK

321

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ADDITIONAL APPENDICES

MS. of Pope's Iliad

459

Thomson and the Surveyor-Generalship of the Leeward

Islands

459-461

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INDEX

463-558

TITLES OF WORKS QUOTED IN THE NOTES

559-568