Eighteenth-Century Poetry

About the Author

David Fairer is Professor of Eighteenth-Century EnglishLiterature at the University of Leeds, UK. His most recent book,Organising Poetry: The Coleridge Circle 1790-1798 (2009)traces the development of English poetry during the 1790s, buildingon the concerns of his previous comprehensive study,English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789(2003). He is also the author of The Poetry of AlexanderPope (1989) and Pope s Imagination (1984), andeditor of The Correspondence of Thomas Warton (1995) andPope: New Contexts (1990). Christine Gerrard is the Barbara Scott Fellow and Tutor inEnglish at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, UK. She has recently editedvolume 1 of The Complete Correspondence of Samuel Richardson:Correspondence with Aaron Hill and the Hill Family (2013) whichfollows on from her literary biography Aaron Hill: TheMuses' Projector, 1685-1750 (2003). She isthe editor of A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry(Wiley Blackwell, 2006) and the author of The PatriotOpposition to Walpole: Politics, Poetry, and National Myth,1725 1742 (1994).