Author Archives: Marco Graziosi

Animation Links

Posted on February 7, 2008 by Marco Graziosi

A few more interesting posts from the incredibly lively world of animation blogs: Michael Sporn has four new nonsense-related articles: Fantasia Program 1 & 2: a souvenir booklet sold with the initial roadshow presentation of Fantasia. Alices: on the clash … Continue reading →

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More Early Essays on Edward Lear

Posted on January 12, 2008 by Marco Graziosi

Two new early essays on Edward Lear are available at the nonsenselit.org’s library: Holbrook Jackson, “Masters of Nonsense.” All Manner of Folks: Interpretations and Studies. London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1912; pp. 30-44. Hildegarde Hawthorne, “Edward Lear.” St. Nicholas: A Monthly … Continue reading →

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The Quadrille

Posted on December 27, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

Here is a poem, made of three limericks, by Louise Ayres Garnett and illustrated by Peter Newell. I’m taking it from an eBay auction, the description dates it to 1922 but does not say where it is taken from: Four … Continue reading →

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Nonsense Poetry in Schools

Posted on December 10, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

A controversy seems to have been raised by the Ofsted report on poetry in schools, which maintains that British pupils are not prepared to appreciate classic poetry because of a focus on a few poems, which are considered not “genuinely … Continue reading →

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Animation News

Posted on December 10, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

Animation is one of the liveliest subjects on the Internet at the moment; among the mass of interesting posts, Michael Sporn’s two new articles (1 & 2) on the representations of the blank map in Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of … Continue reading →

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Lear and Penrhyn Stanley at Glendalough

Posted on December 5, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

Part of Stanley’s first Long Vacation (1835) was spent in a visit to Dublin, where he joined his father at a meeting of the British Association. Though unable, as he confesses, ‘to enter into the scientific business from my ignorance … Continue reading →

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Carolyn Wells on the Limerick

Posted on November 21, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

A new article is available on the nonsenselit.org bookshelf: Carolyn Wells, “Limericks.” Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly, vol. 55, no. 5, March 1903, pp. 532-5. It mostly consists of limericks by authors well-know at the turn of the twentieth century. Worth … Continue reading →

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Animation Backgrounds for Alice in Wonderland

Posted on November 2, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

Rob Richards at Animation Backgrounds has reconstructed the environment in which Disney’s 1951 animated Alice in Wonderland is set. Thanks to Michael Sporn.

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Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer

Posted on November 2, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

Michael Sporn has published the second part of Errol LeCain’s illustrations for Mr. Mistoffelees with Mungojerrie and Rumpeltealzer, go see them! Also see previous post.

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The Poems in Alice in Wonderland

Posted on October 28, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

I have added Florence Milner’s old essay on “The Poems in Alice in Wonderland“ (The Bookman, XVIII, September 1903, pp. 13-6) to the nonsenselit.org bookshelf.

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