SOURCE: "The Making of a Minor Poet: Edward Young and Literary Taxonomy," in English Studies, Netherlands, Vol. 72, No. 4, August, 1991, pp. 355-67.
In the following essay Wanko describes critical reception of Young's works and argues that his critical reputation has suffered because of the development of a literary taxonomy into which he does not neatly fit.
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