Dr. Kevin J. Gardner

Interests

Restoration & 18th-Century British Literature
20th-Century British Poetry
John Betjeman
The Country House in English Literature

Education

Ph.D. Tulane University
M.A. College of William and Mary
B.A. University of St. Thomas

Bio

Kevin J. Gardner is a specialist in Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature and is currently writing a book on Alexander Pope, forthcoming from Liverpool University Press. He has published numerous poetry anthologies and edited collections, including the following: At the Garden’s Dark Edge: Selected Poems by Anthony Thwaite (Baylor UP, 2024), Trailing Clouds of Glory: An Anthology of Lake District Poetry (Waterland Books, 2024), Before the Dreadful Daylight Starts: An Anthology of Norfolk Poetry (Waterland Books, 2023), Contraflow: Lines of Englishness, 1922-2022 (Renard Press, 2023), The Interpretation of Owls: Selected Poems by John Greening, 1977-2022 (Baylor UP, 2023), Hollow Palaces: An Anthology of Modern Country House Poems (Liverpool UP, 2021), and Building Jerusalem: Elegies on Parish Churches (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2016). A John Betjeman scholar, he is the author of Betjeman: Writing the Public Life (published in the UK as Betjeman and the Anglican Imagination) and the editor of four volumes of Betjeman’s writings: Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman: An Anthology of his Religious Verse; Betjeman on Faith: An Anthology of His Religious Prose; Poems in the Porch: The Radio Poems of John Betjeman; and Harvest Bells: New and Uncollected Poems by John Betjeman. His essays and articles have appeared in Eighteenth-Century Life, Theatre Survey, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research, Papers on Language and Literature, English Language Notes, The CEA Critic, South Central Review, M/MLA Journal, Notes and Queries, ANQ, The Explicator, Christianity and Literature, Religion and the Arts, Literature and Theology, Renascence, The Tablet, Church Times, Reinardus, The Betjemanian, Wild Court, PN Review, North American Review, and Sewanee Review.