Author Archives: Marco Graziosi

Jim's Big Ego's The Jumblies

Posted on October 15, 2005 by Marco Graziosi

Jim’s Big Ego have realeased their music under a Creative Commons licence which allows noncommercial distrubution, so here is their Edward Lear-based song, The Jumblies, from the album Don’t Get Smart. If you want to hear earlier song versions of … Continue reading →

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The Runcible Spoon and the Pizzafork

Posted on September 20, 2005 by Marco Graziosi

If you thought the runcible spoon (below left: a Victorian example by the renowned manufacturer Elkington & Co. Birmingham, ca 1880; right: George III Silver Runcible Spoon/Fork, John Hutson, London, 1800) was a strange object…   Take a look at … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear in Italy

Posted on September 5, 2005 by Marco Graziosi

Michael Montgomery, Lear’s Italy. In the Footsteps of Edward Lear. London: Cadogan Guides, 2005. When I ordered the book I expected a travelogue comparing present-day Italian places with what Edward Lear saw in his extensive travels (endless migrations) across the … Continue reading →

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Lear Illustrated in America

Posted on August 10, 2005 by Marco Graziosi

Someone made curious by the announcement in the inside front cover of the January 1870 issue of Our Young Folks (number 61) that “another new contributor, a distinguished English artist, will furnish some laughable verses” would have been happy to … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear and Alice

Posted on August 2, 2005 by Marco Graziosi

One of the most common statements to be found in the frquent comparisons between Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll is that there is no proof that they knew each other’s work; for example John Lehman, in Edward Lear and His … Continue reading →

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Posted on July 27, 2005 by Marco Graziosi

I am late on this, as I read about Hu Wenliang’s “novel without words” only today; but I live in Italy and receive the TLS very late… so others have already discussed it: from the dismissing attitude of CHINAdaily which … Continue reading →

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Mr Lear: A Song Tribute

Posted on June 30, 2005 by Marco Graziosi

Kim Dyer has written to let me know that a new album by Al Stewart, called A Beach Full of Shells (Appleseed Records, 2005), has just been released and it includes a tribute to “Mr Lear”. You can listen to … Continue reading →

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Dreaming Alice

Posted on June 5, 2005 by Marco Graziosi

Starting on 6 June 2005 BBC Radio 4 will be broadcasting a series of programmes in which contemporary writers give a twist to Alice in Wonderland. You will be able to listen to them on the web for a week … Continue reading →

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Let Universe be Books

Posted on May 24, 2005 by Marco Graziosi

I have just received Justin G. Schiller Ltd.’s Spring Miscellany catalogue (no. 53) and among the many interesting items listed is an “original ink Manuscript lesson for teaching Logic, conceived in diagram format and dated by Dodgson in the upper … Continue reading →

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Lear Alphabet Manuscript and Wasp in a Wig to be Auctioned

Posted on April 4, 2005 by Marco Graziosi

More Edward Lear on sale at Christie’s auction of the Norman and Cynthia Armour Collection of Fine Children’s Books. The galley proofs for Carroll’s “Wasp in a Wig” episode are also on sale. Continue reading →

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