Dr David Fairer is Reader in Eighteenth-Century Poetry at the University of Leeds. He is the author of
Pope's Imagination ( 1984),
The Poetry of Alexander Pope (1989), and, as editor,
Pope: New Contexts (1990) and
The Correspondence of Thomas Warton (1995). He has also written widely on eighteenth-century Romanticism, including recent articles on Gray, The Wartons, Chatterton, Burke, Blake, Lamb, Coleridge, and Wordsworth) and is author of the forthcoming volume,
English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, in the Longman Literature in English Series.
Dr Christine Gerrard is a Fellow and Tutor in English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She is the author of The Patriot Opposition to Walpole: Politics, Poetry, and National Myth, 1725-1742 (1994). She has contributed an essay on Pope to Pope: New Contexts (1990) and has written a number of articles on eighteenth-century poets including James Thomson and Richard Savage, and has essays forthcoming on national identity during the early part of the century. She is currently preparing a study of the poet and entrepreneur, Aaron Hill (1685-1750).