Introduction : Edward Lear and the play of poetry / James Williams and Matthew Bevis -- Lear and the fool / James Williams -- 'One of the Dumms' : Edward Lear and Romanticism / Michael O'Neill -- Edward Lear and dissent / Sara Lodge -- 'Some think him...queer' : loners and love in Edward Lear / Peter Swaab -- Edward Lear : celebrity chef / Peter Robinson -- Falling for Edward Lear / Matthew Bevis -- Being and naughtiness / Daniel Brown -- Fragments out of place : homology and the logic of nonsense in Edward Lear / Anna Henchman -- 'The owl and the pussy-cat', and other poems of love and marriage / Daniel Karlin -- Paying with letters : Lear's episthilarity / Hugh Haughton -- The sense and nonsense of weariness : Edward Lear and Gertrude Stein read Tennyson / Anna Barton -- T. S. Eliot plays Edward Lear / Anne Stillman -- 'Now listen, Mr Leer!' : Joyce's Lear / Adam Piette -- Auden's Lear / Seamus Perry -- Drawing away from Lear : Stevie Smith's deceitful echo / Will May -- Edward Lear's contribution to British psychoanalysis / Adam Phillips -- Edward Lear, John Ashberry, and the pleasant surprise / Stephen Ross.
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Lear, Edward, 1812-1888-- Criticism and interpretation.