Edward Lear and the Play of Poetry
Edited by James Williams and Matthew Bevis
Author Information
Edited by James Williams, University of York, and Matthew Bevis, Keble College, Oxford
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 Oxford University, and a 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).
Contributors:
Anna Barton, University of Sheffield
Matthew Bevis, Keble College, Oxford
Daniel Brown, University of Southampton
Hugh Haughton, University of York
Anna Henchman, Boston University
Daniel Karlin, University of Bristol
Sara Lodge, University of St Andrews
Will May, University of Southampton
Michael O'Neill, Durham University
Seamus Perry, Balliol College, Oxford
Adam Phillips, University of York
Adam Piette, University of Sheffield
Anne Stillman, Clare College, Cambridge
Peter Swaab, University College London
Peter Robinson, University of Reading
Stephen Ross, Concordia University, Montreal
James Williams, University of York