found: The skull and the nightingale, 2013:ECIP t.p. (Michael Irwin) data view (b. 3/5/1934; holds an MA, BLit; after teaching at the Catholic University of Lublin and the University of Lodz, both in Poland, at the University of Tokyo, and at Smith College in the United States, Michael Irwin moved to the University of Kent, in Canterbury, where he became Emeritus Professor of English, specialising in eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature; his published works on eighteenth-century literature includes a full-length study of Fielding and essays that take in Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Smollett, Johnson and Pope; apart from his academic work, he has also published two novels and written, or translated, several operas libretti)