David Fairer Author & Editor

Dr David Fairer is Reader in Eighteenth-Century Poetry at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Pope's Imagination (Manchester University Press, 1984), The Poetry of Alexander Pope (Penguin, 1989), and, as editor, Pope: New Contexts (Harvester-Wheatsheaf, 1990) and The Correspondence of Thomas Warton (University of Georgia Press, 1995). He has also written widely on eighteenth-century Romanticism, including recent essays on Gray, The Wartons, Chatterton, Burke, Lamb, Coleridge and Wordsworth, and is author of the forthcoming volume, English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, in the Longman Literature in English Series. With Christine Gerrard he is currently editing Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (Blackwells).