{"product_id":"edward-lear-and-the-play-of-poetry-paperback","title":"Edward Lear and the Play of Poetry - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames Williams\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMatthew Bevis\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf all the Victorian poets, Edward Lear has a good claim to the widest audience: admired and championed by critics and poets from John Ruskin to John Ashbery, he has also been read, heard, and loved by generations of children. As a central figure in the literature of nonsense, Lear has also shaped the evolution of modern literature, and his work continues to influence and inspire writers and readers today. This collection of essays-the first ever devoted solely to Lear-builds on a recent resurgence of critical interest and asks how it is that the play of Lear's poetry continues to delight, and to challenge our sense of what poetry can be. These seventeen chapters, written by established and emerging critics of poetry, seek to explore and appreciate the playfulness embodied in the poems, and to provide contexts in which it can be better understood and enjoyed. They consider how Lear's poems play off various inheritances (the literary fool, Romantic lyric, his religious upbringing), explore particular forms in which his playful genius took flight (his letters, his queer writings about love), and trace lines of Learical influence and inheritance by showing how other poets and thinkers across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries played off Lear in their turn (Joyce, Stein, Eliot, Auden, Smith, Ashbery, and others).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Williams, \u003cem\u003eUniversity of York\u003c\/em\u003e, Matthew Bevis, \u003cem\u003eKeble College, Oxford\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJames 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, \u003cem\u003eEdward Lear\u003c\/em\u003e, in the \u003cem\u003eWriters and Their Work\u003c\/em\u003e series (Northcote House). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMatthew Bevis is a lecturer in English at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Keble College. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Eloquence: Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce (OUP, 2007; paperback 2010) and Comedy: A Very Short Introduction\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2012), and editor of \u003cem\u003eSome Versions of Empson\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2007) and \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2013; paperback 2015).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 30, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52704296698163,"sku":"9780198833796","price":83.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/pXGxnr5CTc9780198833796.webp?v=1763351794","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/edward-lear-and-the-play-of-poetry-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}