Category Archives: Edward Lear

The Adventures of Edward Lear

Posted on March 3, 2008 by Marco Graziosi

You may remember that a few months ago I posted on a projected TV series on Edward Lear’s journey through Albania in 1848. A promo of the documentary is now available on YouTube.

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The Akond of Swat and the Ghazal

Posted on February 21, 2008 by Marco Graziosi

A.E. Stalling has a very interesting post on Edward Lear on her blog at Poetry Foundation. After a short general introduction, she states that The Akond of Swat, […] with its strict adherence to the form and “exotic” eastern locale, … Continue reading →

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More Early Essays on Edward Lear

Posted on January 12, 2008 by Marco Graziosi

Two new early essays on Edward Lear are available at the nonsenselit.org’s library: Holbrook Jackson, “Masters of Nonsense.” All Manner of Folks: Interpretations and Studies. London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1912; pp. 30-44. Hildegarde Hawthorne, “Edward Lear.” St. Nicholas: A Monthly … Continue reading →

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Nonsense Poetry in Schools

Posted on December 10, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

A controversy seems to have been raised by the Ofsted report on poetry in schools, which maintains that British pupils are not prepared to appreciate classic poetry because of a focus on a few poems, which are considered not “genuinely … Continue reading →

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Lear and Penrhyn Stanley at Glendalough

Posted on December 5, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

Part of Stanley’s first Long Vacation (1835) was spent in a visit to Dublin, where he joined his father at a meeting of the British Association. Though unable, as he confesses, ‘to enter into the scientific business from my ignorance … Continue reading →

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The 1888 Roberts Bros Edition

Posted on September 25, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

On Edward Lear’s Nonsense Books, published by the Robert Bros, in “The Literary World.” October 13, 1888:

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The Owl and the Pussy-Cat: A New Arrangement

Posted on September 21, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

Sumanguru Gyra Jones, from Somewhere West of the Everglades, proposes his own arrangement of Edward Lear’s poem: Download He also has an arrangement of Lewis Carroll’s “The Jabberwocky”:

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Something about Edward Lear

Posted on September 19, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

From The Young and Field Literary Readers. Book Three. By Ella Flagg Young and Walter Taylor Field. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1914; available through Google Books:

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The Brothers Dalziel on Edward Lear

Posted on September 15, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

The Brothers Dalziel. A Record of Fifty Years’ Work in Conjunction with Many of the Most Distinguished Artists of the Period – 1840-1890. London: Methuen & Co., 1901, pp. 317-8. Early in the Sixties we made the acquaintance of Edward … Continue reading →

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Tomfoolery

Posted on September 5, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

At long last I have managed to see an episode of Tomfoolery, the 1970-1971 Rankin-Bass show based upon the nonsensical verse and whimsical characters of authors such as Edward Lear, Ogden Nash, Frank Gelett Burgess, and Lewis Carroll. Thanks to … Continue reading →

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