THE

POETICAL REGISTER :

OR, THE

Lives and Characters

OF ALL THE

ENGLISH POETS.

With an Account of their

WRITING S

'Adorned with curious Sculptures engra-
ven by the beft MASTERS.

Poets harr an undoubted Right to claim,
If not the great, the most lafting Name.
Congreve.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

Printed, and Sold by A. Bettelworth, W. Taylor,
and F. Batley, in Paternofter Row; J. Wyat
and C. Rivington, in St. Paul's Church yard;
E. Bell and W. Meadows, in Cornhill, and
J. Pemberton and J. Hooke in Ficetjret. 1723.