David Fairer & Christine Gerrard 
Eighteenth-Century Poetry 
An Annotated Anthology

Currently the definitive text in the field and now available in an expanded third edition, Eighteenth-Century Poetry presents the rich diversity of English poetry from 1700-1800 in authoritative texts and with full scholarly annotation.

* Balanced to reflect current interests and ‘favorites’ (including prominent poets like Finch, Swift, Pope, Montagu, Johnson, Gray, Burns, and Cowper) as well as less familiar material, offering a variety of voices and new directions for research and learning

* Includes 46 new poems with more texts by women poets and the inclusion of four additional poets (Mary Barber, Mehetabel Wright, Anna Seward, and Mary Robinson); poems reflecting new ecological approaches to 18th-century literature; and poems on the art of writing

* Accessible and user-friendly, with generous head notes, full foot-of-page annotations, an expanded thematic index, and a visually appealing text design

About the author

David Fairer is Professor of Eighteenth-Century English
Literature 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, building
on 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 Alexander
Pope (1989) and Pope’s Imagination (1984), and
editor of The Correspondence of Thomas Warton (1995) and
Pope: New Contexts (1990).

Christine Gerrard is the Barbara Scott Fellow and Tutor in
English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, UK. She has recently edited
volume 1 of The Complete Correspondence of Samuel Richardson:
Correspondence with Aaron Hill and the Hill Family (2013) which
follows on from her literary biography Aaron Hill: The
Muses’ Projector, 1685-1750 (2003). She is
the editor of A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry
(Wiley Blackwell, 2006) and the author of The Patriot
Opposition to Walpole: Politics, Poetry, and National Myth,
1725-1742 (1994).