The Poets of the 18th Century - Volume 1

For many in Europe the focus has shifted West to the Americas both by settlement and by war against the indigenous tribes and then between themselves. Democracy would be re-born by the American War of Independence.

In the East, India becomes the stage for further expansion.

For our wordsmiths the world had become a wider page on which to write their thoughts.

Coleridge, Pope, Southey, Wordsworth speak with lyrical eloquence upon subjects great and small but always from the heart.