Pat Rogers is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Liberal Arts at the University of South Florida and an acknowledged authority on Pope. A prolific author and editor, his books include Edmund Curll, Bookseller, with Paul Baines (2007); A Political Biography of Alexander Pope (2010); and the Oxford World's Classics editions of Pope's work.
'Drawing on deep familiarity with the period and its personalities, Pat Rogers has given us a witty and richly detailed account of the ongoing war between the greatest poet of the eighteenth century and its most scandalous publisher. Cleverly presented as the trial of Pope v. Curll, with scores of documents as exhibits and with posterity as jury, the narrative fully justifies the author's comment that Pope and Curll are both inherently funny. ' - Leo Damrosch, author of the bestselling The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age