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A literary work known as "The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland" become written with assist from Theophilus Cibber and launched in 1753. Volume II is a huge a part of the collection. Cibber offers short biographies and crucial evaluations on some of writers from Britain and Ireland on this book. The writer carefully looks into the lives, works, and achievements of those poets, giving readers a complete photograph of the literary scene on the time. Cibber's art work shows the intellectual and cultural scene of the 18th century. They offer a treasured archive of poets who shaped British literary customs. The author's essential mind and testimonies supply a very new view of the poets' personalities and the social and political putting in which they lived. "The Lives of the Poets" is a crucial piece of literature that captures the spirit of an active period in the history of English and Irish literature. It is Cibber's work that helps people apprehend and keep the poetic records of the time through displaying readers the lives and works of essential writers whose have an effect on remains felt within the literary international nowadays.
Theophilus Cibber was an early 18th century actor, playwright and author. Cibber was a famous actor who later developed a bad reputation and was linked to several scandals. He died in a shipwreck on his way to Ireland. His authorship of The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland is disputed, since most of the text is lifted from earlier works by Gerard Langbaine and Giles Jacob. This first volume covers the lives of 58 poets including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Drummond, Middleton, Barkley, and Spencer.
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