Thomas Nicholas Corns, FBA (born 1949), is a literary scholar.
After attending the city's grammar school, he was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, graduating in 1972.
Corns joined the University College of North Wales at Bangor as a lecturer in 1975, and was promoted to a senior lectureship in 1987.
By the time he retired in 2014, the institution had become Bangor University; he remains there as an emeritus professor.
[2] In 1997 he gave the British Academy's Warton Lecture on English Poetry.