Samuel Johnson’s London and The Vanity of Human Wishes, his prologues for Garrick and his odes stand beside the poems of Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray’s Elegy and odes, and Tobias Smollett’s verse, including The Tears of Scotland. The Victorian editor George Gilfillan prefaces each poet with a memoir and critical essay.
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