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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)
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Child Psychology and Nonsense
G.K. Chesterton, “Child Psychology and Nonsense”, Illustrated London News, October 15, 1921.For there are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery … Continue reading
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Was Lewis Carroll's interest in Alice sinister?
Was Lewis Carroll’s interest in Alice sinister? It is true that the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, otherwise known as Lewis Carroll, author of the inimitable classics Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass, liked little girls. Or, as … Continue reading
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Just So Stories
Classic Review – Just So Stories I t was only a century ago, as everybody remembers, that literary sucklings were nurtured on the Bible, Pilgrim’s Progress, Paradise Lost, and Fox’s Book of Martyrs. This was not in all respects an … Continue reading
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Ship of fools. All aboard!
Ship of fools. All aboard! by Vivien Noakes EDWARD LEAR would have been delighted, though not, I think, entirely surprised that The Owl and The Pussycat was recently voted the nation�s favourite children�s poem. �Nonsense is the breath of my … Continue reading
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John Gould's Birds of Australia
John Gould’s Birds of Australia A page from the Treasures of the Library section of the National Library of Australia.
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How Gorey Became Gorey
‘Ascending Peculiarity’: How Gorey Became Gorey How Gorey became Gorey is the heart of the 21 interviews with assorted writers and critics, dated from 1973 to 1999, the year before his death, collected in ”Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward … Continue reading
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'Owl and the Pussy-Cat' voted favourite children's poem
‘Owl and the Pussy-Cat’ voted favourite children’s poem Edward Lear’s “The Owl and the Pussy-Cat” has been voted Britain’s favourite children’s poem in the first public poll of its kind, carried out by the BBC.Independent
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Top poetry is complete nonsense
Top poetry is complete nonsense In a 1998 poll The Owl and the Pussy-cat ranked only 8th, but this was for “comic poems”.BBC News | Entertainment (October 10, 1998)
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What's your favourite children's poem?
What’s your favourite children’s poem? Here you can read most of the top ten poems.BBC – Arts – Poetry
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Poet extols verse's 'healing' quality
Poet extols verse’s ‘healing’ quality Some 1,000 balloons bearing the words of The Owl and the Pussy-Cat – voted the country’s best-loved children’s poem – were released into the London skies.BBC News | ARTS
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