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).

• James Williams and Matthew Bevis: 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

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.

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).

• James Williams and Matthew Bevis: 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

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.

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).

• James Williams and Matthew Bevis: 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

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.