This chapter explores anthologies of Continental poetry and their interpretations of foreign literatures and cultures in light of their editors’ ideological orientations and political agendas. It specifically discusses some representative examples – Sir John Bowring’s volumes of Russian poetry (1821, 1823), John Gibson Lockhart’s Ancient Spanish Ballads (1823), Edgar Taylor and Sarah Austin’s Lays of the Minnesingers (1825) and The Songs of Greece (1825) by Charles Brinsley Sheridan, a translation of Claude Fauriel’s Chants populaires de la Grèce moderne (published in Paris in 1824-5). These works deserve attention not only because they bear witness to a new interest in unfamiliar exotic traditions, but also since they make clear that, in the period under examination, selections and constructions of Continental poetry were inseparable from wide-ranging analyses of the history and politics of Europe from the Middle Ages to the present. This chapter demonstrates that these analyses were invariably driven by ideological premises, as in the moderate Toryism of Lockhart’s Ancient Spanish Ballads, on one side, or the militant radicalism in Bowring’s and Sheridan’s volumes, on the other.