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- How Pleasant to Know Mr Lear (1932)
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Category Archives: Edward Lear
Sweet Owls – Sweeter Pussy-cats
Lesley of Birds Ahoy! has found these delicious biscuits: The illustration of the package is also very beautiful: The producer has a website, but at the moment no information is available.
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Peter Newell as a Successor to Edward Lear
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, December 1899, vol. C, No. DXCV, “Literary Notes” by John Kendrick Bangs, review of Peter Newell’s Pictures and Rhymes: … Equally individual in the character of his work is Mr. Peter Newell, who has just published … Continue reading
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The Complete American Owl and Pussy-cat
When, about two years ago, I posted about the illustrations to three of Edward Lear’s poems first published in Our Young Folks, I had to omit one of the illustrations for “The Owl and the Pussy-cat” for the simple reason … Continue reading
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Three Animated Limericks
A new Edward Lear animation is available on YouTube, Edward Lear Poetic Stories, in Czech, I think, written and directed by Jana Šobáňová in 2005. That’s as much as I manage to gather. Listening to the sung text it would … Continue reading
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Owl and Pussy-Cat in Speed Bump
Yesterday’s Speed Bump cartoon, by Dave Coverly, had Edward Lear’s Owl and Pussy-Cat as protagonists:
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More Edward Lear from YouTube
Violets Adventure, based on Edward Lear’s “The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Round the World“, here is what the author writes: I started off by illustrating the characters then scanned them into a computer and put them … Continue reading
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Uncle Arly Told by Dudley Moore
A suitably obscure rendition of an Edward Lear poem (“Incidents in the Life of My Uncle Arly“) by Dudley Moore from the needlessly destroyed archives of “Not Only… But Also“.
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The Pobble Who Has No Toes: a Marionette Show
This is clearly an amateurish home production of Edward Lear’s “The Pobble Who Has No Toes;” the image is quite dark and at times this makes it difficult to understand what’s going on.
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The Akond of Swat Video by Ken Nordine
The music for this video was first published in Ken Nordine‘s CD A Transparent Mask (Asphodel ASP 2004, 2001): “The Akond of Swat” is one of Edward Lear’s Indian poems. More Nordine on YouTube.
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Two Old Bachelors: the Cartoon
From YouTube, a short animated film by Doug Wilson, illustrating Edward Lear’s poem “The Two Old Bachelors.” This traditional animation movie was produced at the University Of Central Lancashire for his 3rd year degree and it was shown at the … Continue reading
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