Pat RogersPAT ROGERS is DeBartolo Professor in the Liberal Arts at the University of South Florida. He was educated at Cambridge where he gained a double first in English and went on to obtain a Ph.D and Litt.D. He has held teaching posts at the universities o Cambridge, London, Wales and Bristol. His books include Grub Street(1972), The Augustan Vision (1974), Eighteenth-Century Encounters(1985) and Literature and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century England (1985), as well as works on Swift, Pope, Defoe, Fielding and Johnson. He is editor of The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature (1987) and advisory editor of The Blackwell Companion to the Enlightenment. He has also edited Joshua Reynolds' Discourses and Jonathan Swift: Selected Poems for Penguin Classics. Read More Read Less