David Fairer

David Fairer is Professor of Eighteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Leeds. His most recent book is English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789 (Longman, 2003). He is also the author of Pope's Imagination (1984), The Poetry of Alexander Pope (1989), and editor of Pope: New Contexts (1990), The Correspondence of Thomas Warton (University of Georgia Press, 1995), and the first complete printing of Warton's History of English Poetry (Routledge, 1998). With Christine Gerrard he has edited Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (Blackwell, Second Edition, 2004).