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• Bell's Poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill
  1777-1783
• The Works of the British Poets
  edited by R9bert Anderson
  Edinburgh
  14 vols 1792-1807
  
  • v.1. Chaucer, Surrey, Wyat, Sackville
  • v.2. Spenser, Shakspeare, Davies, and Hall
  • v.3. Drayton, Carew, and Suckling
  • v.4. Donne, Daniel, Browne, Fletcher, P., Fletcher, G., Jonson, Drummond, Crashaw, and Davenant
  • v.5. Milton, Cowley, Waller, Butler, and Denham
  • v.6. Dryden, Rochester, Roscommon, Otway, Pomfret, Stepney, Philips, J., Walsh, Smith, Duke, King, Sprat, and Halifax
  • v.7. Parnell, Garth, Rowe, Addison, Hughes, Sheffield, Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Fenton, Granville, and Yalden
  • v.8. Pope, Gay, Tickell, Somervile, Pattison, Hammond, Savage, Hill, Broome, Pitt, and Blair
  • v.9. Swift, Thomson, Watts, Hamilton, Philips, A., West, G., Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, Mallet, Akenside, and Harte
  • v.10. Young, Gray, West, R., Lyttleton, Moore, Boyse, Thompson, Cawthorn, Churchill, Falconer, Lloyd, Cunningham Green, Cooper, Goldsmith, Whitehead, P., Brown, Grainger, Smollett, and Armstrong
  • v.11. Wilkie, Dodsley, Smart, Langhorne, Bruce, Chatterton, Graeme, Glover, Shaw, Lovibond, Penrose, Mickle, Jago, Scott, Johnson, Whitehead, W., Jenyns, Logan, Warton, Cotton, and Blacklock
  • v.12. Pope's Iliad, Pope's Odyssey, West's Pindar, Dryden's Virgil, Dryden's Persius, Dryden's Juvenal, Pitt's Æneid, Rowe's Lucan, Homer's Hymn to Ceres, and Pindar's Odes, ommited by West
  • v.13. Cooke's Hesiod, Fawkes's Theocritus, Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus, Fawkes's Musaeus, Apollonius Rhodius, Mr. C---'s Coluthus Lycopolites, Creech's Lucretius, and Grainger's Tibullus;
• Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1781)
  Samuel Johnson
  

  
  [lives]
  Vol. 1. Lives of: Cowley, Denham, Milton, Butler, Rochester, Roscommon, Otway
  Vol. 2. Lives of: Waller, Pomfret, Dorset, Stepney, J. Philips, Walsh, Dryden
  Vol. 3. Lives of: Smith, King, Sprat, Halifax, Parnell, Garth, Rowe, Addison,
    Hughes, Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Fenton
  Vol. 4. Lives of: Gay, Granville, Yalden, Tickell, Hammond, Somervile, Savage,
    Swift, Broome
  Vol. 5. Lives of: Pope, Pitt, Thomson, Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer,
    Shenstone
  Vol. 6. Lives of: Young, Mallet, Akenside, Gray, Lyttelton, Moore, Cawthorn,
    Churchill, Falconer, Lloyd, Cunningham, Green, Goldsmith, Paul Whitehead,
    Armstrong, Langhorne, Johnson, William Whitehead, Jenyns;
    Index to the lives
  
  [Works]:
  Vol. 7-8. Cowley
  Vol. 9. Cowley, cont'd; Denham
  Vol. 10-12. Milton
  Vol. 13-14. Butler
  Vol. 15. Rochester, Roscommon and Otway
  Vol. 16. Waller
  Vol. 17. Pomfret, Dorset, Stepney, J. Philips, Walsh
  Vol. 18-24. Dryden
  Vol. 25. Smith, Duke, King (in part)
  Vol. 26. King (cont'd), Sprat, and Halifax
  Vol. 27. Parnell
  Vol. 28. Garth, Rowe (in part)
  Vol. 29. Rowe (cont'd)
  Vol. 30. Addison
  Vol. 31. Hughes
  Vol. 32. John Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire; and Prior (in part)
  Vol. 33. Prior (cont'd)
  Vol. 34. Prior (cont'd); Congreve
  Vol. 35. Blackmor; Fenton
  Vol. 36-37. Gay
  Vol. 38. Lansdowne
  Vol. 39. Yalden; Tickell; and Hammond
  Vol. 40. Somervile
  Vol. 41. Somervile (cont'd); Savage
  Vol. 42-43. Swift
  Vol. 44. Swift (cont'd); Broome
  Vol. 45-51. Pope
  Vol. 52-53. Pitt
  Vol. 54. Thomson (in part)
  Vol. 55. Thomson (cont'd ); Watts (in part)
  Vol. 56. Watts (cont'd)
  Vol. 58. Collins; Dyer
  Vol. 59. Shenstone
  Vol. 60-62. Young
  Vol. 63. Mallet; Akenside (in part)
  Vol. 64. Akenside (cont'd); Gray; and Lyttelton
  Vol. 65. Moore; Cawthorne.- Vol. 66. Churchill (in part)
  Vol. 67. Churchill (cont'd); Falconer
  Vol. 68. Lloyd
  Vol. 69. Cunningham; Matthew Green
  Vol. 70. Goldsmith; Paul Whitehead
  Vol. 71. Armstrong; Langhorne
  Vol. 72. Johnson; W. Whitehead (in part)
  Vol. 73. W. Whitehead (cont'd); Jenyns
  Vol. 74. Poetical Index: A-L
  Vol. 75. Poetical Index: M-Z
  

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