Bevis Matthew

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), Some Versions of Empson, ed. (OUP, 2007), and Comedy: A Very Short Introduction (2012). His essays have appeared in the London Review of Books, Harper’s, Raritan, and Poetry magazine, and he has recently finished a book entitled Wordsworth’s Fun. He is currently working on two books: Knowing Edward Lear (for OUP), and On Wonder (for Harvard UP).