Richard Hillyer is Professor of English at University of South Alabama, USA. His previous books include Four Augustan Science Poets: Abraham Cowley, James Thomson, Henry Brooke, Erasmus Darwin (2020), Auden's Syllabic Verse (2020), Divided between Carelessness and Care: A Cultural History (2013), Sir Philip Sydney, Cultural Icon (2010), and Hobbes and His Poetic Contemporaries: Cultural Transmission in Early Modern England (2007).