Author Archives: Marco Graziosi

Not strange so blithesome I appear! I was brought up on Edward Lear

Posted on August 27, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

The following was published in William B. Osgood Field’s Edward Lear on My Shelves (p. 158). Osgood Field found it in a copy of Edward Lear’s 1871 Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets: A fly-leaf obviously from another copy, with yellow recto … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear and Edward Gibbon

Posted on August 26, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

On 2 January 1882 Edward Lear wrote in his diary that he “took a Gibbon’s Rise & Fall up to Mrs. Welfords” and then at the bottom of the page added a limerick obviously inspired by this event: the poem … Continue reading →

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Peter Newell, The Johnson Family at the Columbian Exposition (1893)

Posted on August 25, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

One of the most annoying aspects of Peter Newell’s production was his frequent reliance on racial stereotypes, which often becomes racism tout court; here is what Bridget R. Cooks writes in “Fixing Race: Visual Representations of African-Americans att the World’s … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear and his Garden

Posted on August 24, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

The last page of a letter from San Remo, by Edward Lear; from the George Gery Milner-Gibson-Cullum autograph collection at Trinity College Library, Cambridge.

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Carolyn Wells’s Lovely Lilly

Posted on August 19, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Carolyn Wells often contributed to the children’s sections of newspapers in the first decade of the XX century. One of the weirdest of these contributions was no doubt Adventures of Lovely Lilly, which ran in the Sunday New York Herald from December 1906 … Continue reading →

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More Summer Reading

Posted on August 16, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

It seems I missed several more articles on Edward Lear: Marroni, Francesco. “Byron, Edward Lear and the Riddle of Albania.” Skills and Tools to the Cultural Heritage and Cultural Tourism Management. Eds. Santoro, Sara, Eva Subias and Gloria Bolzoni. Teramo: Edizioni D’Errico, … Continue reading →

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Summer Reading, Watching and Listening

Posted on August 12, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Here is a list of Edward Lear resources I found in the past months but never posted; please note I have also added several items to the bibliographies: Hugh Haughton, “Edward Lear and ‘The Fiddlediddlety of Representation.’” The Oxford Handbook … Continue reading →

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Peter Newell and Edward Lear

Posted on August 11, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Equally individual [as Stockton’s article on A.B. Frost mentioned in the previous review] is Mr. Peter Newell, who has just published a collection of his quaintly illustrated nonsense verses, under the title of Peter Newell’s Pictures and Rhymes. The world … Continue reading →

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Peter Newell, The Minstrel

Posted on August 10, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Harper’s New Monthly, August 1894, p. 486.

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Peter Newell, A Sentimental Poem

Posted on August 6, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

If I should write a sentiment, The best I could invent, ‘Twould not be worth a dime, I fear — That is — a cent, I ment. Peter Newell Peter Newell, Autograph Poem Signed, “Peter Newell,” one page, March 15, … Continue reading →

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