Category Archives: Edward Lear

Owl and Pussy-Cat in Speed Bump

Posted on April 25, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

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

Posted on April 1, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

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

Posted on March 31, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

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

Posted on March 31, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

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

Posted on March 30, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

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

Posted on March 30, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

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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Fictional Edward Lear

Posted on February 13, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

Interest in Edward Lear must be on the rise, at least among writers: he has been making appearances in a number of novels, short stories and even as the central character in Clive Barker’s play Subtle Bodies (in Forms of … Continue reading →

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A-Courting with the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò

Posted on December 12, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

In my previous post on the sources of Edward Lear’s “The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò” I forgot to mention William Wordsworth’s “The Blind Highland Boy,” noted by Michael Heyman in his Isles of Boshen; in the poem the boy escapes … Continue reading →

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On the Coast of Coromandel

Posted on December 7, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

Vivien Noakes, in her edition of Edward Lear’s Complete Verse and Other Nonsense (London: Penguin, 2001; pp.517-8), mentions as a source for “The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò” a Great Wolford, Worcestershire, mummers’ play, in which the Fool says: In comes … Continue reading →

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Indian Nonsense: Anushka Ravishankar

Posted on November 7, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

Michael Heyman, whose not-to-be-missed thesis on Edward Lear, Isles of Boshen, has been online for some time, has an article on Anushka Ravishankar’s Indian Nonsense in the November issue of The Horn Book, a publication about books for children and … Continue reading →

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