Biography
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).
'At first sight and touch this reprint of Thomas Warton's History of English Poetry, co-produced by Routledge and Thoemmes Antiquarian Books, leaves no room for doubt: here is a classic. Witness the luxurious, reddish brown linen binding and golden lettering on front and spine, the latter seamed at bottom with a row of doric capitals as a final hint for the undecided, as well as the sumptuous, finely-grained paper with the slightests tinge of yellow....Now the canonizer has been canonized. The reprint is remarkable in its suggestiveness concerning the importance of Thomas Warton's History - today' - Klaus Stierstorfer
