Richard Cronin taught for more than forty years at the University of Glasgow. His first monograph was Shelley's Poetic Thoughts (1981), and his most recent are Romantic Victorians: English Literature, 1824-1840 (2002), Paper Pellets: British Literary Culture after Waterloo (2010), Reading Victorian Poetry (2011), and George Meredith: The Life and Writing of an Alteregoist (2019). He co-edited Emma for the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen (2005), Robert Browning for 21st-Century Oxford Authors (2014), and A Companion to Victorian Poetry (2002). This is his ninth monograph.