Collection of Poems by Several Hands

<p>This was the best-selling poetry anthology of the eighteenth century edited by the most celebrated publisher of the era Alexander Pope's protege Robert Dodsley. It includes poems by Samuel Johnson Thomas Gray David Garrick Lady Mary Wortley Montague Horace Walpole Joseph and Thomas Warton James Thomson Elizabeth Carter Pope himself and many others. The <em>Collection of Poems</em> is an invaluable index of literary culture in the eighteenth century and yet despite its great popularity and influence it has not been in print for more than two hundred years.</p>