Evans was a clergyman, poet, and well-known epigrammatist. Evans wrote politically charged, yet contradictory sermons, espousing at times zealous tory beliefs, and at others, staunch whig ones. Thomas Hearne concluded from Evans's vacillation that Evans was trying to get preferment from the whigs, though he was unsuccessful, as the college was his only ecclesiastical patron. A satire called The apparition is his most famous work.