list of contributors
Vivien Noakesisthe editor of the definitive variorum edition ofThe Poetry and
Plays of Isaac Rosenberg(2004), and ofVoices of Silence:The Alternative Book of
First World War Poetry(2006). She has published extensively on the life and work
of the nonsense poet and painter Edward Lear, and was Guest Curator of the major
exhibition ‘Edward Lear: 1812–1888’ at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and
the National Academy of Design, New York (1985). She was formerly a Lecturer at
Somerville College, Oxford, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Cornelia D. J. Pearsallis Associate Professor of English at Smith College. Her book
Tennyson’s Raptureis forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Other book-
length projects include ‘Tennyson and the Federation of the World’, on the laureate
and imperial expansion; ‘Loved Remains’, on the materialization of mourning in
Victorian Britain; and a collection of essays on war poetry from Tennyson to Plath.
She has published articles on such subjects as Browning’s dramatic monologues,
the funeral of the Duke of Wellington, and Auden’s post-war poetry.
Marjorie Perloffis the author of many books on modern poetry, includingThe
Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage(1981),The Futurist Moment(1986),
Radical Artifice(1992),Wittgenstein’sLadder(1996),andmostrecently,Differentials:
Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy(2004). She has frequently written on Yeats, beginning
withRhyme and Meaning in the Poetry of Yeats(1970). She is Sadie Dernham
Patek Professor Emerita of Humanities at Stanford University and currently
Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Southern California.
Adam Pietteis Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Sheffield,
and author ofImagination at War(1995) andRemembering and the Sound of Words
(1996). He has worked at the universities of Paris XIII, Lausanne, Geneva, and
Glasgow, and is currently completing a project on Cold War writing.
Ralph Pite’sbiography of Hardy,Thomas Hardy: The Guarded Life, appeared in
2006; he has also publishedHardy’s Geography: Wessex and the Regional Novel
(2002). He is Professor of English Literature at Cardiff University, and has written
extensively on Romanticism, modern poetry, and Victorian literature. He is author
of a book of poems,Paths and Ladders(2003).
Mark Rawlinsonis Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester. He is the
author ofBritish Writing of the Second World War(2000). He is currently finishing
a book on the Second World War in fiction after 1945, writing a monograph on Pat
Barker, and researching the cultural significance of camouflage.
Gareth Reevesis Reader in English at Durham University. He is the author of
T. S. Eliot: A Virgilian Poet(1989);T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’(1994); two
volumes of poetry,Real Stories(1984) andListening In(1993); and, with Michael
O’Neill,Auden, MacNeice, Spender: The Thirties Poetry(1992); as well as essays on,