Peter Davidson was born in Scotland in 1957. He is currently Senior Research Fellow at Campion Hall, University of Oxford. Peter has edited theClarendon Poems and Translations of Sir Richard Fanshawe (Vol I, 1998; II, 1999); the Clarendon anthology of seventeenth-century English poetry, Poetry and Revolution(1998), and (with Jane Stevenson)Early Modern Women's Poetry (2001). He has also published numerous articles and studies of the post-reformation culture of British Catholicism, most recently in the monographThe Universal Baroque (Manchester University Press, 2007). The Last of the Light: about twilight was published by Reaktion in 2015. Robert Macfarlane is an acclaimed nature and travel writer. He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Magdalen College, Oxford and he is now a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. His most recent book, The Old Ways, was shortlisted for the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize.