File NLW MS 12499C. - Observations on Dr Johnson's Lives of the Poets,

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NLW MS 12499C.

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Observations on Dr Johnson's Lives of the Poets,

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  • [1781x1783] / (Creation)

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A draft holograph manuscript of [the Reverend Robert Potter's tract entitled An Inquiry into some passages in Dr. Johnson's Lives of the Poets particularly his observations on lyric poetry and the odes of Gray; [with] the ninth Pythian ode of Pindar translated, London, 1783], written to express the author's disagreement with some of the critical statements made by Dr. [Samuel] Johnson, particularly with regard to lyric poetry, in his biographical and critical work on English poets, The Lives of the most eminent English poets with critical observations on their works [London, 1781].

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English.

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The description is also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971).

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For other manuscripts of the Reverend Robert Potter see NLW MSS 12433D, 12480-12481C, 12485B, 12493B.

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Formerly known as Wigfair 99.

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Preferred citation: NLW MS 12499C.

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vtls004955120

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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

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