Lives of The Most Eminent English Poets - List of Lives

List of Lives

The poets included were:

  • Abraham Cowley
  • Sir John Denham
  • John Milton
  • Samuel Butler (Hudibras)
  • John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
  • Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon
  • Thomas Otway
  • Edmund Waller
  • John Pomfret
  • Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset
  • George Stepney
  • John Philips
  • William Walsh
  • John Dryden
  • Edmund Smith
  • Richard Duke
  • William King
  • Thomas Sprat
  • Charles Montague, Earl of Halifax
  • Thomas Parnell
  • Samuel Garth
  • Nicholas Rowe
  • Joseph Addison
  • John Hughes
  • John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham
  • Matthew Prior
  • William Congreve
  • Sir Richard Blackmore
  • Elijah Fenton
  • John Gay
  • George Granville, Lord Lansdown
  • Thomas Yalden
  • Thomas Tickell
  • James Hammond
  • William Somervile
  • Richard Savage
  • Jonathan Swift
  • William Broome
  • Alexander Pope
  • Christopher Pitt
  • James Thomson
  • Isaac Watts
  • Ambrose Philips
  • Gilbert West
  • William Collins
  • John Dyer
  • William Shenstone
  • Edward Young
  • David Mallet
  • Mark Akenside
  • Thomas Gray
  • George Lord Lyttelton

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