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Author: James Williams (University of York) ,
Matthew Bevis (Keble College, Oxford)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 23.30cm
Weight: 0.690kg
ISBN: 9780198833796
ISBN 10: 0198833792
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 30 May 2019
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
It makes a convincing case for Lear's enduring interest not just for Victorianists but for those who would seek to understand modernist and later twentieth-century innovations in poetic form. * Lee Behlman, Victorian Studies * The Play of Poetry sounds like a deference to the particular kind of responsibility that belongs to good art and artists. It does justice to an artist properly good, not improperly great: illuminating a writer as responsibly irresponsible as the surprising last lines of his limericks. * Barbara Everett, Times Literary Supplement * a fresh way to read a supposedly minor poet...I should add that in an era when publishers are cutting corners, this is a particularly pleasing edition, a sturdy volume with good quality paper. * Talia Schaffer, SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 * Edward Lear and The Play of Poetry [...] feels like it has been gifted to us. [T]he collection revels in the inexplicable mysteriousness of Lear the man, along with his art and the often contradictory emotions it elicits [...] an invitation to wonder. * Joseph Jordan * Clever and vivacious essays * Andrew Motion, Hopkins Review * An admirable new collection ... Rarely does a collection of essays published by an academic press carry such emotional nuance, or tune it to the requirements of literary analysis so deftly and consistently ... This collection will swiftly become one of the first ports of call for Lear scholars, but some of its essays deserve to be read by anyone with an interest in the ways we might ""turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us"", as Matthew Arnold put it. * Ben Westwood, Times Literary Supplement * [An] excellent volume ... If Edward Lear and the Play of Poetry is any guide to what is to come, the future for Lear studies looks bright indeed. Its contributors show it to be possible to write successfully about his nonsense in diverse ways. ... Arriving at a moment when Lears critical fortunes appear to be on the rise, it will be an essential point of reference. * Martin Dubois, Review of English Studies * Almost every page contained pleasurable surprises. * Paris Review *
Almost every page contained pleasurable surprises. * Paris Review * [An] excellent volume ... If Edward Lear and the Play of Poetry is any guide to what is to come, the future for Lear studies looks bright indeed. Its contributors show it to be possible to write successfully about his nonsense in diverse ways. ... Arriving at a moment when Lears critical fortunes appear to be on the rise, it will be an essential point of reference. * Martin Dubois, Review of English Studies * An admirable new collection ... Rarely does a collection of essays published by an academic press carry such emotional nuance, or tune it to the requirements of literary analysis so deftly and consistently ... This collection will swiftly become one of the first ports of call for Lear scholars, but some of its essays deserve to be read by anyone with an interest in the ways we might turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us , as Matthew Arnold put it. * Ben Westwood, Times Literary Supplement * Clever and vivacious essays * Andrew Motion, Hopkins Review * Edward Lear and The Play of Poetry [...] feels like it has been gifted to us. [T]he collection revels in the inexplicable mysteriousness of Lear the man, along with his art and the often contradictory emotions it elicits [...] an invitation to wonder. * Joseph Jordan * a fresh way to read a supposedly minor poet...I should add that in an era when publishers are cutting corners, this is a particularly pleasing edition, a sturdy volume with good quality paper. * Talia Schaffer, SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 * The Play of Poetry sounds like a deference to the particular kind of responsibility that belongs to good art and artists. It does justice to an artist properly good, not improperly great: illuminating a writer as responsibly irresponsible as the surprising last lines of his limericks. * Barbara Everett, Times Literary Supplement * It makes a convincing case for Lear's enduring interest not just for Victorianists but for those who would seek to understand modernist and later twentieth-century innovations in poetic form. * Lee Behlman, Victorian Studies *
Almost every page contained pleasurable surprises. * Paris Review * [An] excellent volume ... If Edward Lear and the Play of Poetry is any guide to what is to come, the future for Lear studies looks bright indeed. Its contributors show it to be possible to write successfully about his nonsense in diverse ways. ... Arriving at a moment when Lears critical fortunes appear to be on the rise, it will be an essential point of reference. * Martin Dubois, Review of English Studies * An admirable new collection ... Rarely does a collection of essays published by an academic press carry such emotional nuance, or tune it to the requirements of literary analysis so deftly and consistently ... This collection will swiftly become one of the first ports of call for Lear scholars, but some of its essays deserve to be read by anyone with an interest in the ways we might turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us , as Matthew Arnold put it. * Ben Westwood, Times Literary Supplement * Clever and vivacious essays * Andrew Motion, Hopkins Review * Edward Lear and The Play of Poetry [...] feels like it has been gifted to us. [T]he collection revels in the inexplicable mysteriousness of Lear the man, along with his art and the often contradictory emotions it elicits [...] an invitation to wonder. * Joseph Jordan * a fresh way to read a supposedly minor poet...I should add that in an era when publishers are cutting corners, this is a particularly pleasing edition, a sturdy volume with good quality paper. * Talia Schaffer, SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *
Author Information
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).
