Edward Lear and the Play of Poetry
Title | Edward Lear and the Play of Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | James Williams |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0198708564 |
Of 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 (Stein, Eliot, Auden, Smith, Ashbery, and others).
Edward Lear and the Play of Poetry
Title | Edward Lear and the Play of Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | James Williams |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2016-08-25 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0191081914 |
Of 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).
The Owl and the Pussycat
Title | The Owl and the Pussycat PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Lear |
Publisher | Kids Can Press Ltd |
Pages | 50 |
Release | 2007-09 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1553378288 |
Edward Lear's beloved poem has charmed readers since it was first published in 1871. 4+ yrs.
Edward Lear and the Play of Poetry
Title | Edward Lear and the Play of Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | James Williams |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2016-10-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 019101818X |
Of 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).
Limericks
Title | Limericks PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Lear |
Publisher | Benchmark Education Company |
Pages | 24 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1450953158 |
Poetry Text
The Scroobious Pip
Title | The Scroobious Pip PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Lear |
Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN |
All the animals gather to find out just what the Scroobious Pip is.
Edward Lear
Title | Edward Lear PDF eBook |
Author | James Williams |
Publisher | |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0746312210 |
James Williams's account, the first book-length critical study of the poet since the 1980s, sets out to re-introduce Lear and to accord him his proper place: as a major Victorian figure of continuing appeal and relevance, and especially as a poet of beauty, comedy, and profound ingenuity.