Special Guest Lecture by Oxford Professor, Matthew Bevis

Name: Special Guest Lecture by Oxford Professor, Matthew Bevis
Start: 2025-10-13T17:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-13T18:00:00-04:00
Location: 89 Barnes Rd, Stonington, CT 06378-2200, United States

Schedule

Mon Oct 13 2025 at 05:00 pm to 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

89 Barnes Rd, Stonington, CT 06378-2200, United States | Stonington, CT

Join us for this rare opportunity to hear Matthew Bevis speak: "Beginning to Wonder: Forms of Astonishment in American Poetry."
Matthew Bevis is based at the English Faculty in Oxford, where he runs Poetry at Keble. His books include Comedy: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2012), Wordsworth’s Fun (Chicago, 2019), and Edward Lear: Moment to Moment (Ikon, 2022). His recent essays have appeared in Harper’s, The New York Review of Books, and The London Review of Books. He is currently finishing Then Again: Notes on Lyric for Harvard.

This event is at the Pine Point School Geise Library. Please RSVP