Abstract
This final paragraph of the Life of Gray, as Roger lonsdale points out with repeated emphasis in his vivid and learned edition of the Lives of the Poets, was intended by Johnson to be the closing words “not merely [of] ‘Gray’ itself, but his entire survey of english poetry.” This intention was the more remarkable because, as lonsdale describes it, “the real ending in terms of composition is the defiant last paragraph” of the Life of Pope:
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