Seamus Perry

Seamus Perry is a Fellow of Balliol College and Professor of English Literature in the University of Oxford. He has published numerous books on poetry and criticism, including most recently editions of Matthew Arnold and William Empson. He is currently working on an intellectual biography of W.H. Auden (Bloomsbury), as well as finishing a collection of critical essays about modern poetry for Princeton University Press. With Christopher Ricks and Freya Johnston, he is editor of the journal Essays in Criticism. He regularly contributes to the London Review of Book and the Times Literary Supplement, and, with Mark Ford, hosts a podcast for the LRB entitled Close Readings.