Matthew Bevis is Professor of English Literature and Fellow at Keble College, Oxford. His books include The Art of Eloquence: Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce (OUP, 2007), Comedy: A Very Short Introduction (2012), and Wordsworth’s Fun (Chicago UP, 2019). His essays have appeared in the London Review of Books, Harper’s, New York Review of Books, Raritan, and Poetry. He is currently working on Knowing Edward Lear (for OUP), and Then Again: Notes on Lyric (for Harvard UP).

  

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