Project Gutenberg 2004-01-01 Public domain in the USA. 63 Cary, Henry Francis 1772 1844 Cary, H. F. (Henry Francis) Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives Reading ease score: 61.3 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Samuel Johnson -- John Armstrong -- Richard Jago -- Richard Owen Cambridge -- Tobias Smollett -- Thomas Warton -- Joseph Warton -- Christopher Anstey -- William Mason -- Oliver Goldsmith -- Erasmus Darwin -- William Julius Mickle -- James Beattie -- William Hayley -- Sir William Jones -- Thomas Chatterton -- Henry Kirke White. Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Carol David and PG Distributed Proofreaders "Lives of the English Poets" by Henry Francis Cary is a biographical compilation written in the mid-19th century. This work is designed as a continuation of Samuel Johnson's earlier lives of poets, focusing on notable English poets from Johnson's time up to Kirke White. The book explores the lives, influences, and contributions of these poets, offering insights into their characters and works. The beginning of "Lives of the English Poets" provides an overview of Samuel Johnson's life, detailing his upbringing, education, and the formative experiences that shaped him as a writer. It illustrates his struggles with poverty and health issues, his intellectual pursuits, and the various literary endeavors he embarked upon throughout his life. Cary sets the stage by chronicling Johnson's eccentricities and character traits, painting a vivid picture of the man behind the literary legacy, thus inviting readers into the world of one of England's greatest literary figures. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Poets, English -- Biography PR Text Browsing: Biographies Browsing: Literature Browsing: Poetry 639377 639271 2024-10-05T05:50:33.795521 2023-10-05T06:27:14.923361 text/html text/html 639370 639264 2024-10-05T05:50:34.100491 2023-10-05T06:27:15.138388 text/html text/html 318674 2024-10-05T05:50:42.847441 application/epub+zip 327137 2024-10-05T05:50:36.213524 application/epub+zip 327137 2024-10-05T05:50:34.931549 application/epub+zip 543227 2024-10-05T05:50:47.892424 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 514616 2024-10-05T05:50:41.994472 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 500943 2022-09-05T09:04:32.403921 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 599217 599162 2024-10-05T05:50:33.176531 2023-10-05T06:27:14.456331 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 600618 2020-12-20T02:41:24 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 237774 2020-12-20T02:41:24 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 600609 2020-12-20T02:41:23 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 237751 2020-12-20T02:41:24 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21096 2024-10-05T05:50:48.033415 application/rdf+xml 12054 2024-10-05T05:50:35.479497 image/jpeg 3122 2024-10-05T05:50:35.203481 image/jpeg 314511 2024-10-05T05:50:34.159487 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia