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Edward Lear and the Play of Poetry (Paperback)
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Edward Lear and the Play of Poetry (Paperback)
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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).
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