Peter Swaab, Reader in English at University College London, has published Lives of the Great Romantics: Wordsworth (Pickering, 1996) and essays on Wollstonecraft, Hopkins, James, and Gunn, and a life of Charles Lamb for the New DNB. He edited Over the Land and Over the Sea: Selected Nonsense and Travel Writings by Edward Lear (Carcanet/FyfieldBooks, 2005) and the Collected Poems of Sara Coleridge (Carcanet/FyfieldBooks, 2007). He is also working on a book of essays on ideas of utopia in gay and lesbian literature.