Nicholas Roe is Professor of English at St Andrews University. He is the author of Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical Years (1990), John Keats and the Culture of Dissent (1998), and most recently The Politics of Nature: William Wordsworth and Some Contemporaries (2002).
Roe is an exceptionally shrewd critic of Romanticism - uncannily alert... everything he says is well-turned and reliably clever -- Andrew Motion * Guardian * Roe provides as complete a portrait as we are likely to get of Hunt’s first 37 years -- Nicholas Shakespeare * Daily Telegraph * Roe offers a meticulous and thorough account of Hunt’s significance in the literary culture of the Regency era * Sunday Telegraph * Roe is a seasoned Romantic scholar who offers an impassioned account of Hunt's 'first life' -- D J Taylor * Sunday Times * Roe's biography is an absorbing account of English intellectual culture in the early 19th century * Evening Standard * Excellent...intriguing reading...Surely [Leigh Hunt] should be back in print for us to judge him now * Daily Mail * Roe brings to his work decades of research on the period...[his] volume is free of imprecision and well-informed * Independent *