A stylish reissue of Roger Lonsdale's widely praised anthology of 18th-century poetry: no previous anthology has succeeded in illustrating so thoroughly the kinds of verse actually written in the eighteenth century.

Emeritus Fellow of Balliol and former Professor of English at the University of Oxford, Roger Lonsdale is a celebrated authority on English literature of the eighteenth century. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including, most recently, Samuel Johnson's The Lives of the Poets (four volumes, OUpP, 2006).