David Fairer

Organising Poetry

The Coleridge Circle, 1790-1798

In this revisionary study of the poetry of Coleridge, Wordsworth and their friends during the 'revolutionary decade' David Fairer questions the accept...

English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789

In recent years the canon of eighteenth-century poetry has greatly expanded to include women poets, labouring-class and provincial poets, and many pre...

The Devil’s Cathedral

A Mystery of Queen Anne’s London

The second in the ‘Chocolate House Mysteries’ series, The Devil’s Cathedral captures all the energies of the early eighteenth-century stage with...

The Poetry of Alexander Pope

This is a critical study of Pope's poetry for A-level and first year degree students....

Pope's Imagination

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Eighteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets, vol 1

Poets of labouring class origin were published in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries. Some were popular and important in their day but few are ava...

Eighteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets, vol 2

Poets of labouring class origin were published in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries. Some were popular and important in their day but few are ava...

Chocolate House Treason

A Mystery of Queen Anne’s London

Covent Garden, January 1708. Widow Trotter has big plans for her recently-inherited coffee house, not suspecting that within days her little kingdom w...

Captain Hazard’s Game

A Mystery of Queen Anne’s London

The third in the ‘Chocolate House Mysteries’ series, Captain Hazard’s Game conjures up the vibrant life of early eighteenth-century gamesters an...

Thomas Warton's History of English Poetry

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Eighteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets, Vol 3

Poets of labouring class origin were published in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries. Some were popular and important in their day but few are ava...

The History of English Poetry

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