The Author: Ross Wilson is a Junior Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he completed his doctoral dissertation in 2004. He has recently finished a book on Theodor Adorno for the Routledge Critical Thinkers series and is editing a volume on the idea of 'life' in Romantic poetry and poetics. Elected to a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship from October 2007, he is planning to conduct research on the idea of 'immortal verse' in Romantic poetry, as well as to continue work on the post-Kantian aesthetic tradition.