Author Archives: Marco Graziosi

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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Gustave Verbeek's Monotypes

Posted on October 20, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

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

Posted on September 27, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

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 →

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The 1888 Roberts Bros Edition

Posted on September 25, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

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

Posted on September 24, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

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

Posted on September 21, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

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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