Matthew Bevis

Matthew Bevis teaches English at Keble College, Oxford. His next book, Wordsworth’s Fun, will be published later this year.

In the LRB Archive:

• Gravity’s Smoothest Dream: A.R. Ammons · 7 March 2019

  • The Complete Poems by A.R. Ammons

• Foiled by Pleasure: Barrett Browning · 30 August 2018

  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Writings edited by Josie Billington and Philip Davis

• Were you a tome?: Edward Lear · 14 December 2017

  • Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense by Jenny Uglow

• Video: Simplicity in Stevie Smith · 29 July 2016

• What most I love I bite: Stevie Smith · 28 July 2016

  • The Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith edited by Will May

• The lighthouse stares back: Tóibín on Bishop · 7 January 2016

  • On Elizabeth Bishop by Colm Tóibín

• I can bite anything I want: Lewis Carroll · 16 July 2015

  • Lewis Carroll by Morton Cohen
  • The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll edited by Morton Cohen
  • Lewis Carroll: The Man and His Circle by Edward Wakeling

• It is still mañana: Robert Frost’s Letters · 19 February 2015

  • The Letters of Robert Frost, Vol. 1: 1886-1920 edited by Donald Sheehy, Mark Richardson and Robert Faggen

• Metropolitan Miscreants: Victorian Bloomsbury · 4 July 2013

  • Victorian Bloomsbury by Rosemary Ashton
  • Metropolitan Art and Literature, 1810-40: Cockney Adventures by Gregory Dart

• Kids Gone Rotten: ‘Treasure Island’ · 25 October 2012

  • Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by John Sutherland
  • Silver: Return to Treasure Island by Andrew Motion
  • Treasure Island!!! by Sara Levine

• Deleecious: William Hazlitt · 6 November 2008

  • New Writings of William Hazlitt: Volume I edited by Duncan Wu
  • New Writings of William Hazlitt: Volume II edited by Duncan Wu
  • William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man by Duncan Wu

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