Author Archives: Marco Graziosi

Tomfoolery

Posted on May 28, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

I have been looking for episodes from the Tomfoolery Show at least since 2002, when I heard of this show largely based on characters created by Edward Lear. While no episode has turned up so far, Ron Kurer’s Toon Tracker … Continue reading →

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A TV Series on Edward Lear

Posted on May 27, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

Lear Productions, a division of RS Productions, is filming a three-part TV series on Edward Lear’s travels in Greece and Albania, writer and traveller Rob Horne will follow in the footsteps of Lear. The first programme is ready and the … Continue reading →

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Letters of Edward Lear

Posted on May 25, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

Archive.org has placed online the two early collections of Edward Lear’s letters: Letters of Edward Lear to Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford, and Frances Countess Waldegrave. Edited by Lady Strachey. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1907 (1909 edition). Later letters of Edward … Continue reading →

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Sweet Owls – Sweeter Pussy-cats

Posted on May 22, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

Lesley of Birds Ahoy! has found these delicious biscuits: The illustration of the package is also very beautiful: The producer has a website, but at the moment no information is available.

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Peter Newell as a Successor to Edward Lear

Posted on May 19, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, December 1899, vol. C, No. DXCV, “Literary Notes” by John Kendrick Bangs, review of Peter Newell’s Pictures and Rhymes: … Equally individual in the character of his work is Mr. Peter Newell, who has just published … Continue reading →

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The Complete American Owl and Pussy-cat

Posted on May 18, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

When, about two years ago, I posted about the illustrations to three of Edward Lear’s poems first published in Our Young Folks, I had to omit one of the illustrations for “The Owl and the Pussy-cat” for the simple reason … Continue reading →

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Three Animated Limericks

Posted on May 12, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

A new Edward Lear animation is available on YouTube, Edward Lear Poetic Stories, in Czech, I think, written and directed by Jana Šobáňová in 2005. That’s as much as I manage to gather. Listening to the sung text it would … Continue reading →

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Owl and Pussy-Cat in Speed Bump

Posted on April 25, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

Yesterday’s Speed Bump cartoon, by Dave Coverly, had Edward Lear’s Owl and Pussy-Cat as protagonists:

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More Edward Lear from YouTube

Posted on April 1, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

Violets Adventure, based on Edward Lear’s “The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Round the World“, here is what the author writes: I started off by illustrating the characters then scanned them into a computer and put them … Continue reading →

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Uncle Arly Told by Dudley Moore

Posted on March 31, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

A suitably obscure rendition of an Edward Lear poem (“Incidents in the Life of My Uncle Arly“) by Dudley Moore from the needlessly destroyed archives of “Not Only… But Also“.

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