-
Join 1,450 other subscribers
Search this site:
Edward Lear
- Biographical Essays
- Ship of Fools. All Aboard!
- Lear’s Diaries
- A Chronology of Lear’s Life
- EL. Landscape Painter and Poet
- Bibliographies and Links
- The Edward Lear 2012 Celebrations
- Letters to the Caetani Family
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
- More Articles
Twitter Updates
Tweets by margrazCategories
- Comics (68)
- Cruikshank (4)
- Dr. Seuss (22)
- Edward Gorey (15)
- Edward Lear (1,283)
- General (139)
- Gustave Verbeek (27)
- James Thurber (3)
- Lewis Carroll (68)
- Limerick (64)
- Nonsense Lyrics (29)
- Peter Newell (87)
- Podcasts (40)
- Punch (2)
- Uncategorized (17)
- WS Gilbert (1)
Author Archives: Marco Graziosi
Lear-ing
Lear-ing by David Noland, about Lear’s travels in Calabria. Delta-Sky.com
Posted in Edward Lear
Leave a comment
Word-Twisting versus Nonsense
Word-Twisting versus Nonsense from The Spectator, reprinted in Littell’s Living Age, Fifth Series, Volume LVIII, Apr-May-Jun 1887, pp. 379-81.
Posted in Edward Lear, General, Lewis Carroll
Leave a comment
A Review of Illustrated Excursions in Italy
A Review of Illustrated Excursions in Italy(and Fanny Kemble’s A Year of Consolation) from the Quarterly Review, reprinted in Littell’s Living Age, no. 187, 11 December 1847, pp. 481-94.Cornell University Making of America
Posted in Edward Lear
Leave a comment
Lear necrology
Lear necrology from The New England Magazine. / Volume 6, Issue 33 March 1888, p. 302.
Posted in Edward Lear
Leave a comment
Why I'll always have a soft spot for the lovely Lady Mondegreen
Why I’ll always have a soft spot for the lovely Lady Mondegreen Homophones upset grammarians. But Mondegreen Rules, OK? They are a source of gaiety in the English language. Falstaff, Alice, Dickens and Edward Lear would be lost without them. … Continue reading
Posted in General
Leave a comment
The Uses of Enchantment
The Uses of Enchantment In ”The Little Mermaid,” Hans Christian Andersen suggests that immortality can serve as a substitute, however unsatisfactory, for human love. The story is clearly an allegory for his own life, for the unloved Andersen, more than … Continue reading
Posted in General
Leave a comment
How Come the Translation of a Limerick Can Have Four Lines (Or Can It?)
How Come the Translation of a Limerick Can Have Four Lines (Or Can It?) by Gideon Toury in: Word, Text, Translation: Liber Amicorum for Peter Newmark,eds Gunilla Anderman & Margaret Rogers. Clevedon etc.: Multilingual Matters, 1999, 163-174.
Posted in Limerick
Leave a comment
Poetics of Children's Literature
Poetics of Children’s Literature by Zohar Shavit The University of Georgia Press, Athens and London, 1986[Full text online.]
Posted in General
Leave a comment
Pinocchio, questo benedetto toscano
Pinocchio, questo benedetto toscano Concepito nell’aprile 1881, il capolavoro di Collodi compie centoventi anni. La Toscana ha perci� indetto il “1° Festival del Teatro di Pinocchio”. Molti spettacoli in tutta Italia.[On the aniversary of Collodi’s conception of Pinocchio, with a … Continue reading
Posted in General
Leave a comment
Granddaughter of Lewis Carroll's Muse Puts Collection Up for Sale
Granddaughter of Lewis Carroll’s Muse Puts Collection Up for Sale The archive includes hundreds of letters, photographs, manuscripts, journals and other pieces of family memorabilia, among the most prominent of which are a group of photographs by Lewis Carroll; two … Continue reading
Posted in Lewis Carroll
Leave a comment