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Lives of the Poets, The

American  

noun

  1. a collection (1779–81), by Samuel Johnson, of biographical and critical essays on 52 English poets.


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In spite of Bradstreet's achievements, she scarcely rates a sentence in Louis Untermeyer's 757-page Lives of the Poets: The Story of One Thousand Years of English and American Poetry.

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