This chapter will concentrate on the English-language literary reception of Catullus since 1750, particularly in poetry; there is stimulating work elsewhere on the reception of Catullus in other European literatures in this period. It will largely focus on Britain, with occasional excursions into other English-speaking environments. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Britain had seen much interest in translating and adapting Catullus into English, but the Augustan world of Pope and Dryden preferred the more obviously polished Virgil, Horace and Ovid amongst the Latin poets, a taste continued in the age of Dr Johnson (d.1784), and it was in the Romantic period from the later eighteenth century that Catullus began to regain in Britain the literary popularity he had enjoyed in the age of the Tudors and Stuarts.