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• Poets, English -- Middle English, 1100-1500
• Poets, English -- Biography

• Chaucer, by Adolphus William Ward (Gutenberg text)
• Chaucer's Official Life, by James R. Hulbert (Gutenberg text)
• Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the Early English Poet (2 volumes; London: Printed by T. Davison for Richard Phillips, 1803), by William Godwin
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
• Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the Early English Poet (second edition, 4 volumes; London: Printed by T. Davison for Richard Phillips, 1804), by William Godwin
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  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
  • Volume IV: page images at Google
• Studies in Chaucer: his life and writings. (Russell & Russell, 1962), by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in Chaucer. v.1 : his life and writings (Kessinger Pub., 2008), by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The ancestry of Chaucer (The Lord Baltimore Press, 1907), by Alfred Allan Kern (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chaucer and His Times, by Grace E. Hadow (Gutenberg ebook)

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• The ancestry of Chaucer (The Lord Baltimore Press, 1907), by Alfred Allan Kern (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chaucer and His England, by G. G. Coulton (Gutenberg ebook)

• Lives of English Poets, From Johnson to Kirke White: Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives (1846), by Henry Francis Cary (Gutenberg text)
• Milton und seine Zeit (Duncker & Humblot, 1877), by Alfred Stern (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johnson's Lives of the poets (John Murray, 1854), by Samuel Johnson, Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Peter Cunningham, R. B. Adam, A. D. Toogood, Charles Dickens, and Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the most eminent English poets : with critical observations on their works (Printed and sold by Samuel Etheridge, jun'r., 1810), by Samuel Johnson, Mary G. Ware, Samuel Etheridge, Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress), and Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Elizabethan lyrists and their poetry. (AMS Press, 1972), by Amy Cruse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lives of famous poets. (Ward, Lock & co., 1878), by William Michael Rossetti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Living poets of England; Specimens of the living British poets with biographical and critical notices, and an essay on English poetry. (L. Baudry, 1827) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Elizabethan lyrists and their poetry (G. G. Harrap, 1913), by Amy Cruse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Johnson's Lives of the poets (Kegan paul, Trench, Trübner & co., 1896), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the most eminent English poets : with critical observations on their works (Published by Benjamin C. Buzby ... and Benjamin Warner ..., 1819), by Samuel Johnson, Laura W. Riley, Sylvanus Plympton, Abraham Fagan, Benjamin Warner, Benjamin C. Buzby, and Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on their works. (London, etc., 1821), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the English poets : with critical observations on their works and lives of sundry eminent persons (John Sharpe ;, 1831), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the English poets (B. Tauchnitz, 1858), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johnson's Lives of the poets (Macmillan and Co., 1878), by Samuel Johnson, R. B. Adam, Harold S. Wyatt, Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Matthew Arnold, and Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Home pictures of English poets, for fireside and schoolroom. (D. Appleton and company, 1869), by Kate Sanborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life, letters and essays of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. (T.R. Knox, 1877), by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Richard Henry Stoddard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the most eminent English poets : with critical observations on their works (Published for Benjamin Johnson ... and Samuel F. Bradford, 1803), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Lives of the most eminent English poets with critical observations on their works (James Christie, Holborn, 1822), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of uneducated poets, to which are added attempts in verse (H. G. Bohn, 1836), by John Jones and Robert Southey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walton's lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, and Dr. Robert Sanderson. (Henry Washbourne and co., 1858), by Izaak Walton, A. H. Bullen, and William Dowling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the poets (G. Bell, 1890), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Byron (Macmillan, 1919), by John Nichol (page images at HathiTrust)
• Effigies poeticae: (J. Carpenter and son, 1824), by Bryan Waller Procter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gleanings from many authors in memory of Burns (J. & R. Parlane, 1916), by E. S. Fulton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chatterton a biographical study (Macmillan, 1869), by Daniel Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the most eminent English poets (Methuen and Co., 1896), by Samuel Johnson, John Hepburn Millar, William Ernest Henley, and Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The six chief lives from Johnson's Lives of the poets ; with Macaulay's Life of Johnson (Macmillan, 1886), by Samuel Johnson, Matthew Arnold, and Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mrs. Browning's letters and essays. (Worthington, 1889), by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, R. H. Horne, and Richard Henry Stoddard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the most eminent English poets : with critical observations on their works (S. E. Cassino, 1854), by Samuel Johnson, Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, and Peter Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poets of Yorkshire : comprising sketches of the lives, and specimens of the writings of those "children of song" who have been natives of, or otherwise connected with the County of York (Groombridge and Sons, 1845), by William Cartwright Newsam (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the most eminent English poets : with critical observations on their works (J. Sawers, 1818), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Elizabethan lyrists and their poetry (George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1919), by Amy Cruse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (5 volumes), by Theophilus Cibber
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
  • Volume III: Gutenberg text
  • Volume IV: Gutenberg text
  • Volume V: Gutenberg text
• Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets (with additional links and information), by Samuel Johnson, ed. by Kathleen Nulton Kemmerer (HTML at 18thcenturyarchive.org)
• The lives of the most eminent English poets : with critical observations on their works (Printed and sold by Samuel Etheridge, jun'r., 1810), by Samuel Johnson, Mary G. Ware, Samuel Etheridge, Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress), and Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the English poets (Jones & Co., 1825., 1825), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687), by William Winstanley, contrib. by William Riley Parker (Gutenberg ebook)

• Coleridge's Biographia Literaria: Text and Meaning (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Frederick Burwick (PDF at Ohio State)

• Poeta infamis, or, A poet not worth hanging being a dialogue between Lysander Valentine, and poet Pricket : with a letter to the author of The marriage-hater matched, written by his friend. (London : Printed for B.C. :, and are to be sold by R. Baldwin ..., 1692), by Charles Gildon (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Theatrum poetarum anglicanorum. Containing the name and characters of all the English poets, from the reign of Henry III. to the close of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. (Printed by Simmons and Kirkby, for J. White, London, 1675), by Edward Phillips and Egerton Brydges (page images at HathiTrust)

• Effigies poeticae : or, The portraits of the British poets : illustrated by notes biographical, critical, and poetical. (J. Carpenter and Son, 1824), by Barry Cornwall, D. S. Maurice, and J. Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)

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