Author Archives: Marco Graziosi

THE author of a suggestive and interesting paper in the current number of the Quarterly Review, entitled “Nonsense as a Fine Art,” [pdf download] discourses with considerable plausibility on the “infinite worth” of Sense’s antithesis. But in calling Nonsense “a … Continue reading →

EDWARD LEAR, the artist, author of Journals of a Landscape Painter in various out-of-the-way countries, and of the delightful Books of Nonsense, which have amused successive generations of children, died on Sunday, January 29, at San Remo, where he had … Continue reading →

Stephen Duckworth has sent me a list of paintings, watercolours and drawings by Edward Lear (pdf) in UK public collections. We will try to keep you updated on which are going to be displayed during 2012.

MR. LEAR has followed up his delightful “Book of Nonsense” by a new one, called “Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets,” [R.J. Bush, Charing Cross.] which contains many great triumphs of the scientific feeling for nonsense, and we are disposed … Continue reading →

[The idea of “correcting” Edward Lear’s nonsense, which I discussed while reviewing John Crombie’s nice booklet, is as old as Lear’s books. Here is a review from 1871.] Mr. Lear commences his new book of nonsense with an amusing account … Continue reading →

No feature of Edward Lear’s limericks has attracted greater criticism than the repetitive last lines; sooner or later someone was bound to try to ‘improve’ them by providing a more satisfying ending to Lear’s “nonsenses,” as he generally refferred to his … Continue reading →