Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Works of the British Poets, Vol. 1: With Lives of the Authors; Chaucer, &C
This new foray of the Edinburgh booksellers appears to have given those of London another alarm; and, in 1810, Mr. Chalmers commenced the publication of the Poets, upon the same plan, though in three more volumes. Dr. Anderson professed to give new biographies to all the poets; but he often copied the language of Johnson, word for word. Mr. Chalmers retains the Lives of Johnson entire; and has only furnished new lives to such authors, as were not included in Johnson's edition. His work extends, also, as low as Cowper; and ln cludes several of the earlier poets, that are not to be found in Anderson.
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