William Keach teaches English at Brown University and has written articles for the International Socialist Review on McCarthyism and on international law. He is the editor of Leon Trotsky’s Literature and Revolution and Giuliana Sgrena’s Friendly Fire, both published by Haymarket Books. He is also the author of Elizabethan Erotic Narratives (1976), Shelley's Style (1984), and Arbitrary Power: Romanticism, Language, Politics (2004), and has edited Coleridge: The Complete Poems for the Penguin English Poets series (1997).