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On Lear and Nonsense
- A Very Good Children’s Book (1865)
- Nonsense Verse, &c. (1880)
- Word-Twisting Versus Nonsense (1887)
- Concerning Nonsense (1889)
- Delightful Nonsense (1890)
- G.K. Chesterton, A Defence of Nonsense (1902)
- The Poems in Alice in Wonderland (1903)
- Limericks (1903)
- Ian Malcolm on Edward Lear (1908)
- G.K. Chesterton, Two Kinds of Paradox (1911)
- H. Jackson, Masters of Nonsense (1912)
- H. Hawthorne, Edward Lear (1916)
- G.K. Chesterton, Child Psychology and Nonsense (1921)
- How Pleasant to Know Mr Lear (1932)
- G.K. Chesterton, Both Sides of the Looking-Glass (1933)
- G.K. Chesterton, Humour (1938)
- G. Orwell, Nonsense Poetry (1945)
- George Orwell, Funny, But Not Vulgar (1945)
- Michele Sala, Lear’s Nonsense: Beyond Children’s Literature
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Gustave Verbeek's Monotypes
I have added an article on Gustave Verbeek‘s monotypes, to which he devoted his efforts after abandoning comics in the 1910s: Hawthorne, Hildegarde. “A New Achievement in an Old Medium: Gustave Verbeek’s Monotypes.” The Century Magazine 92.2, June 1916, 96-102.
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The Illustrated Old Possum
Michael Sporn, of Splog, has a number of posts about illustrator Errol Le Cain, and among them two devoted to his illustrations to poems from T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats: Growltiger’s Last Stand and Other Poems Mr. … Continue reading
The 1888 Roberts Bros Edition
On Edward Lear’s Nonsense Books, published by the Robert Bros, in “The Literary World.” October 13, 1888:
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The Gashlycrumb Tinies
On YouTube, a nice animation based on Edward Gorey’s The Gashlycrumb Tinies, by Matt Duplessie of Clandestiny:
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The Owl and the Pussy-Cat: A New Arrangement
Sumanguru Gyra Jones, from Somewhere West of the Everglades, proposes his own arrangement of Edward Lear’s poem: Download He also has an arrangement of Lewis Carroll’s “The Jabberwocky”:
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Something about Edward Lear
From The Young and Field Literary Readers. Book Three. By Ella Flagg Young and Walter Taylor Field. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1914; available through Google Books:
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The Brothers Dalziel on Edward Lear
The Brothers Dalziel. A Record of Fifty Years’ Work in Conjunction with Many of the Most Distinguished Artists of the Period – 1840-1890. London: Methuen & Co., 1901, pp. 317-8. Early in the Sixties we made the acquaintance of Edward … Continue reading
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Tomfoolery
At long last I have managed to see an episode of Tomfoolery, the 1970-1971 Rankin-Bass show based upon the nonsensical verse and whimsical characters of authors such as Edward Lear, Ogden Nash, Frank Gelett Burgess, and Lewis Carroll. Thanks to … Continue reading
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A Cubist Romance
Over at 5lines (A limerick a day!) I am publishing a series by Oliver Herford which appeared in the Century Magazine between 1911 and 1913. Here is another humorous poem which appeared in the same magazine in the June 1930 … Continue reading
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Lord Purrpurr Performs Owl and Pussy-Cat
Lord Purrpurr of the Fuzzberrys gives his rendition of Edward Lear’s “Owl and the Pussycat:”
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