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Dr David Evans

David Evans is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of St Andrews. He works on musico-poetic relationships in the nineteenth century, especially questions of rhythm and form. He has published 'Rhythm, Illusion and the Poetic Idea: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarme' (Rodopi, 2004), as well as articles on Debussy and Banville. He is currently working on a monograph entitled 'Music, Memory and Mechanism: The Poetic Theory and Practice of Theodore de Banville', for publication with Legenda in 2013.