Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Fred Robinson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Preparer's Note: This e-text is taken from a facsimile of the original 18th-century volume. The spelling, punctuation, and other quirks have largely been retained. Only the most obvious printer's errors have been corrected, and are marked [like this]. Anglistica & Americana A Series of Reprints Selected by Bernhard Fabian, Edgar Mertner, Karl Schneider and Marvin Spevack 17 GEORG OLMS VERLAGSBUCHHANDLUNG HILDESHEIM THEOPHILUS CIBBER The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Vol. II 1968 GEORG OLMS VERLAGSBUCHHANDLUNG HILDESHEIM Note The present facsimile is reproduced from a copy in the possession of the Library of the University of Goettingen. Shelfmark: H. lit. biogr. I 8464. Although the title-page of Volume I announces four volumes, the work is continued in a fifth volume of the same date. Like Volumes II, III, and IV, it is by "Mr. CIBBER, and other Hands" and is "Printed for R. GRIFFITHS". M.S. Reprografischer Nachdruck der Ausgabe London 1753 Printed in Germany Herstellung: fotokap wilhelm weihert, Darmstadt Best.-Nr. 5102040 THE LIVES OF THE POETS OF GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND. Compiled from ample Materials scattered in a Variety of Books, and especially from the MS. Notes of the late ingenious Mr. COXETER and others, collected for this Design, By Mr. CIBBER, and other Hands. VOL. II. LONDON: Printed for R. GRIFFITHS, at the Dunciad in St. Paul's Church-Yard. MDCCLIII VOLUME II. Contains the LIVES OF