Throughout the book is authoritative and amusing: Ezell exhibits an uncommonly keen eye for the deft quotation (by no means the usual chestnuts) and the telling anecdote, many of which will surprise and delight veteran students of the period as well as undergraduate aspirants. ... Summing up: highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.
Margaret Ezell is a Distinguished Professor of English and the John and Sara Lindsey Chair of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. She received her degrees from Wellesley College and Cambridge University.