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The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland is an early biographical history of English-language poets, mixing literary criticism with stories about the people who produced the poems. Volume I preserves an older way of understanding literary greatness: a poet’s work is interpreted
Volume III continues the eighteenth-century project of preserving the lives and works of British and Irish poets through biography, anecdote, and literary judgment. The emphasis is not only on poems but on the people who wrote them
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