Editor John Mullan is at the Department of English, University College London. His publications include Sentiment and Sociability (1988) Jennifer Wallace is at Peterhouse, Cambridge Ralph Pite is at the Department of English Language and Literature, University of Liverpool Fiona Robertson is at the Department of English Studies, University of Durham

'Lives of the Great Romantics is not simply an absorbing collection of Romantic biographies but an important contribution to the growing debate about the biographical discipline itself.' The Byron Journal

• Volume 1 John Keats With extracts from: Barry Cornwall, 'Town Conversation' London Magazine (1821); Shelley, Adonis (1821); John Hamilton Reynolds, The Garden of Florence and Other Poems (1821); Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron and his Contemporaries (1828);'Novels of the Season' Fraser's Magazine (1831); Coleridge, Specimens of Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. by H N Coleridge (1835); Walter Cooper Dendy, The Philosophy of Mystery (1841) and Legends of the Lintel and the Ley (1863); Thomas Medwin, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelly (1847); Richard Monckton Milnes, Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats (1848); Leigh Hunt, Autobiography (1850); Benjamin Robert Haydon, The Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon (1853); Charles Cowden Clarke, 'Recollections of Keats', Atlantic Monthly, vii (1861); Joseph Severn; 'On Vicissitudes of Keats's fame', Atlantic Monthly, XI (1863); Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, Recollections of Writers (1878); Sir Benjamin Richardson,'An Esculapian Poet - John Keats' (1824); Joseph Severn, The Life and Letters of Joseph Severn (1892); Charles Brown, The Life of John Keats (1937) Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge With extracts from: Thomas Love Peacock, Melincourt (1817); Thomas Brown the Elder, Bath (1818); Charles Lamb, 'Christ's Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago' (1823); William Hazlitt, 'My First Acquaintance with Poets' (1823); William Hazlitt, 'Mr Coleridge' (1825); Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries (1828); Unsigned, 'Memoir of Samuel Taylor Coleridge' (1829); John A Heraud, An Oration on the Death of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834); C Le Grice, 'College Reminiscences of Mr Coleridge' (1834); Thomas De Quincey, 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge by The English Opium-Eater' (1835); Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835); Thomas Allsop, Letters Conversations and Recollections of S. T. Coleridge (1836); Clement Carlyon, Early Years and Late Reflections (1836-58); Joseph Cottle, Early Recollectio