James Engell, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Harvard, is the author of The Creative Imagination, editor and contributor to Johnson and His Age, and coeditor (with David Perkins) of Teaching Literature: What is Needed Now, all published by Harvard University Press. He is also coeditor of the Bollingen edition of the Biographia Literaria for the Collected Works of Coleridge.

David Perkins is John P. Marquand Professor of English Literature, Harvard University.

Read More by James Engell:

• Johnson and His Age
• Forming the Critical Mind: Dryden to Coleridge

Read More by David Perkins:

• A History of Modern Poetry, Volume I, From the 1890s to the High Modernist Mode
• A History of Modern Poetry, Volume II, Modernism and After
• Theoretical Issues in Literary History
• Wordsworth and the Poetry of Sincerity