1863 The Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett. With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes, by the Rev. George Gilfillan. The Text Edited by Charles Cowden Clarke.

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This title forms part of the Nichol's Library Edition of the British Poets.

The Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by Rev. George Gilfillan, edited by Charles Cowden Clarke. During his lifetime Reverend George Gilfillan was an advocate for working-class poets, as well as being a spasmodic poet himself and a literary critic. Within this volume is contained several delightful poetical works by Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, and Tobias Smollett, including Samuel Johnson's 'The Vanity of Human Wishes', Thomas Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard', and a number of Smollet's odes.