Warwick Gould is Professor of English Literature at the University of London and founding director of its Institute of English Studies. He has edited the Yeats Annual since 1983, is co-editor of The Secret Rose, Stories by W. B. Yeats: A Variorum Edition, The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats II, 1896-1900 and Mythologies, and co-author of Joachim of Fiore and the Myth of the Eternal Evangel in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.