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Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope
Samuel Johnson
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Nothing now remained for the poets but to resist or fly. Dryden’s conscience or his prudence, angry as he was, withheld him from the conflict. Congreve and Vanbrugh attempted answers. Congreve, a very young man, elated with success, and impatient of censure, assumed an air of confidence and security. His chief art of controversy is to retort upon his adversary his own words: he is very angry, . . . Read More
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I admit that before picking up this book I knew nothing about Prior or Blackmore and next to nothing about Congreve. It's going to stay that way as Dr. Johnson provides little to recommend them. He has a few nice things to say about Congreve's dramas, but not his poetry, and he has some good words f