ABSTRACT
In the biography of Cowley, Johnson has committed an unintentional injustice towards Donne. By representing Cowley's ('mlts as the faults of a school, he brings forward parallel passages from other authors containing like ('mlts, and Donne is one of them. He has previously described the school as a set of unfeeling pedants, and hence the reader finding Donne's worst lines cited in illustration of that remark, may easily imagine that he never did anything better, and set him down as a mere pedantic rhymer.
