Ross Wilson is Associate Professor of Criticism in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Emmanuel College. He is the author of Shelley and the Apprehension of Life (2013), books on Theodor Adorno and Immanuel Kant, and numerous essays in the history and theory of literary criticism, aesthetics, and Romantic and Victorian poetry. He is editor of The Meaning of 'Life' in Romantic Poetry and Poetics (2009) and Percy Shelley in Context, as well as co-editor of Romantic Circles Reviews and Receptions.

• 1: Prefaces


• 2: Selections


• 3: Reviews


• 4: Lectures


• 5: Dialogues


• 6: Letters


• 7: Life-Writing


• The Winding-Up

Critical Forms is an account of the generic forms in which literary criticism has been undertaken. It examines literary criticism from around 1750 to the present and examines prefaces, selections and anthologies, reviews, lectures, dialogues, letters, and life-writing.