The authors would like to thank all those at Wiley Blackwell who have made this book possible. The book is a joint venture, with each author taking primary responsibility for different sections. Michael O’Neill has taken primary responsibility for the volume’s overall design, and has written the introduction and the sections on Beddoes, Blake, Burns, Clare, Hunt, Moore, Robinson, Southey, and Wordsworth (with the exception of the section on Lyrical Ballads). He has also written the sections on Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Don Juan, Coleridge’s conversation poems, the final section on Keats (his 1820 volume), and the section on Shelley’s Queen Mab, Alastor, and Laon and Cythna. Madeleine Callaghan has drawn up the timeline, written the biographies, taken principal responsibility for preparing the further reading, and written the remaining sections on Byron, Coleridge, Keats and Shelley, and the sections on Barbauld, Hemans, Landon, Lyrical Ballads, Smith, and Yearsley. The authors are grateful to the Universities of Durham and Sheffield for help of various kinds, and would like particularly to acknowledge the intellectual stimulus and collegiality provided by Anna Barton, Adam Piette, Stephen Regan, Mark Sandy, Sarah Wootton, and Angela Wright. They are also grateful to the readers of their original proposal and of the final manuscript for many valuable suggestions. As will be evident from the text, notes, and further reading, they are indebted to the work of many critics and scholars who have shaped their understanding of the poetry of the period. Michael O’Neill is especially grateful to Duncan Wu for showing him advance proofs of the latter’s brilliantly thought‐provoking 30 Great Myths about the Romantics (Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2015). For assistance with the index, the authors are grateful to Sharon Tai.