Lives of the Poets, The

noun

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

Example Sentences

One novel, "The Zero," a 2006 National Book Award finalist, took on America's post-9/11 breakdown; 2009's "The Financial Lives of the Poets," the Great Recession.

From Seattle Times

In Jess Walter's The Financial Lives of the Poets, the web plays a more conventionally disruptive, siren-like role in the disintegration of a suburban family.

From The Guardian

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Modeling their work on Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets, the Gregorys have included not only biographical information but legends and anecdotes.

From Time Magazine Archive

In all the biographies of Vanbrugh, from the time of Cibber’s Lives of the Poets, the early part of the life of this man of genius remains unknown.

From Project Gutenberg