Category Archives: Edward Lear

Blessed Be Nonsense!

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

NONSENSE Blessed be nonsense! And blessed be he who invented it! But who was he? Was he pliocene or miocene? Were little Tubal Cain and his sister Naamah sung to sleep by anything deliciously silly? Did anybody draw funny caricatures … Continue reading →

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Mccoola’s Limerick Illustrations

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

Marika Mccoola’s portfolio on CMYK includes several beautiful illustrations for limericks by Edward Lear.

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Geneva and Vevey

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

I have already posted several of Edward Lear’s pictures of Switzerland (1, 2, 3), but so far none from his first visit in 1837 while he was travelling to Italy for the first time. He left London in July and … Continue reading →

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Vivien is No Longer with Us

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

I have just heard from Charles Lewsen that Vivien Noakes died yesterday afternoon. There is no need to empahsize how important she was, and is, to all students of Edward Lear. I’ll just say that she was always supportive and … Continue reading →

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More Mr. Lear

Posted on February 12, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

Here is another song from the Mr. Lear show in Paris, and an invitation for tomorrow’s performance:

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Reviews of Edward Lear’s Masada

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

Masada was probably the painting that decided Edward Lear’s fortune as a painter, and its effect was far from positive; however, 11 February 1861 was a particularly happy day for Lear as the Times published a “favourable notice” of his … Continue reading →

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Nonsense for Chrismas 1874

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

On 16 December 1874, Judy ran a review of nursery rhyme books, which includes a reference to Edward Lear. He is mentioned as the author of… Alice in Wonderland. While I have often received e-mails asking about the famous poems … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear and Phonetics

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

John Well’s phonetic blog discusses what we can learn on Victorian pronunciation from Edward Lear’s limericks. The Opinionator NY Times blog suggests that Victorian naturalists might be a model for some of Lear’s most famous characters: The Brittle-Stars Danced. The … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear and the Brothers Dalziel

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

So far, Lear has mentioned his nonsense rhymes very little in the Diaries; for instance on 19 September 1860, while at Little Green with the Hornbys, one of the families that most appreciated his nonsense, he writes: I sang nonsense … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear Reviewed in Judy

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

A BOOK OF NONSENSE There was once upon a time — I think it was last Tuesday week — a silly old bald-headed gentleman, who took a Brompton omnibus, and found another silly old bald-headed gentleman inside laughing fit to … Continue reading →

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