This is the first collection of essays devoted solely to Edward Lear, and builds on a recent resurgence of critical interest in the Victorian poet. Seventeen essays explore how it is that the play of his poetry continues to delight and challenge us, and provide contexts in which it can be better understood and enjoyed.
This is the first collection of essays devoted solely to Edward Lear, and builds on a recent resurgence of critical interest in the Victorian poet. Seventeen essays explore how it is that the play of his poetry continues to delight and challenge us, and provide contexts in which it can be better understood and enjoyed.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
James Williams is a lecturer in English Literature at the University of York. His publications include essays on Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Alfred Tennyson, Samuel Beckett, and Victorian comic verse. He is currently completing a short monograph, Edward Lear, in the Writers and Their Work series (Northcote House). Matthew Bevis is a lecturer in English at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Keble College. He is the author of The Art of Eloquence: Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce (OUP, 2007; paperback 2010) and Comedy: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2012), and editor of Some Versions of Empson (OUP, 2007) and The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry (OUP, 2013; paperback 2015).
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* Introduction: Edward Lear and the Play of Poetry * 1: James Williams: Lear and the Fool * 2: Michael O'Neill: 'One of the Dumms': Edward Lear and Romanticism * 3: Sara Lodge: Edward Lear and Dissent * 4: Peter Swaab: 'Some Think Him ... Queer': Loners and Love in Edward Lear * 5: Peter Robinson: Edward Lear: Celebrity Chef * 6: Matthew Bevis: Falling for Edward Lear * 7: Daniel Brown: Being and Naughtiness * 8: Anna Henchman: Fragments Out of Place: Homology and the Logic of Nonsense in Edward Lear * 9: Daniel Karlin: 'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat', and other Poems of Love and Marriage * 10: Hugh Haughton: Playing with Letters: Lear's Episthilarity * 11: Anna Barton: The Sense and Nonsense of Weariness: Edward Lear and Gertrude Stein read Tennyson * 12: Anne Stillman: T. S. Eliot Plays Edward Lear * 13: Adam Piette: 'Now Listen, Mr Leer!': Joyce's Lear * 14: Seamus Perry: Auden's Lear * 15: Will May: Drawing Away from Lear: Stevie Smith's Deceitful Echo * 16: Adam Phillips: Edward Lear's Contribution to British Psychoanalysis * 17: Stephen Ross: Edward Lear, John Ashbery, and the Pleasant Surprise * Select Bibliography * Index
* Introduction: Edward Lear and the Play of Poetry * 1: James Williams: Lear and the Fool * 2: Michael O'Neill: 'One of the Dumms': Edward Lear and Romanticism * 3: Sara Lodge: Edward Lear and Dissent * 4: Peter Swaab: 'Some Think Him ... Queer': Loners and Love in Edward Lear * 5: Peter Robinson: Edward Lear: Celebrity Chef * 6: Matthew Bevis: Falling for Edward Lear * 7: Daniel Brown: Being and Naughtiness * 8: Anna Henchman: Fragments Out of Place: Homology and the Logic of Nonsense in Edward Lear * 9: Daniel Karlin: 'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat', and other Poems of Love and Marriage * 10: Hugh Haughton: Playing with Letters: Lear's Episthilarity * 11: Anna Barton: The Sense and Nonsense of Weariness: Edward Lear and Gertrude Stein read Tennyson * 12: Anne Stillman: T. S. Eliot Plays Edward Lear * 13: Adam Piette: 'Now Listen, Mr Leer!': Joyce's Lear * 14: Seamus Perry: Auden's Lear * 15: Will May: Drawing Away from Lear: Stevie Smith's Deceitful Echo * 16: Adam Phillips: Edward Lear's Contribution to British Psychoanalysis * 17: Stephen Ross: Edward Lear, John Ashbery, and the Pleasant Surprise * Select Bibliography * Index
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