| A Collection of Poems by Several Hands Revised Edition Contributor(s): Dodsley, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415143829 ISBN-13: 9780415143820 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $1965.31 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 1997 Annotation: 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 Garick, Lady Mary Worley Montagu, Horace Walpole, Joseph and Thomas Warton, James Thomson, Elizabeth Carter, Pope himself, and many others. The Collection of Poems 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors) |
| Dewey: 821.508 |
| Series: Cultural Formations: The Eighteenth Century |
| Physical Information: 2338 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Collection of Poems 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. |