Category Archives: Edward Lear

Three Lear Limericks

Posted on February 7, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

Although it may sound sacrilegious, some artists have actually chosen to re-illustrate the verses in Edward Lear’s A Book of Nonsense. These Latter Day Neo Reform Limericks keep popping up everyday in bookshops. It’s not that Lear didn’t get it, … Continue reading →

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To the Land Where the Jam-tree Grows !?

Posted on February 6, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

Nothing […] amused Lear more than the failure of some people to appreciate the utter absence of sense in his nonsense. He used to relate that some one once wrote to him to say that he had marched various botanical … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear Music in Sanremo

Posted on January 11, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

At the end of 1997, the city of Sanremo held an exhibition of Edward Lear paintings and watercolours; there was also a concert of his Tennyson arrangements and of Dudley Glass’s settings of his poems on 7 December. Here is … Continue reading →

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The Time Draws Near the Birth of Christ

Posted on December 21, 2005 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear published two collections of arrangements of Alfred Tennyson’s poems. This first, in 1853, included four settings (‘Edward Gray’, ‘A Farewell’, ‘Tears, Idle Tears’, and ‘Sweet and Low’), the second, in 1859, added five more, including the one I … Continue reading →

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Elton Hayes: The Jumblies

Posted on December 15, 2005 by Marco Graziosi

The second song from Elton Hayes’s first Edward Lear record: The Jumblies.

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Gilbert Mack (1912-2005)

Posted on December 12, 2005 by Marco Graziosi

Cartoon Brew reports that Gilbert Mack passed away on 5 December 2005 at the age of 93. In addition to movies and lending his voice to several cartoon characters, Mack published 78-rpm records of his readings of two of Edward … Continue reading →

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Elton Hayes: The Table and the Chair

Posted on December 7, 2005 by Marco Graziosi

Elton Hayes published three 78-rpm records with Edward Lear songs, the first one in October 1950 (Parlophone R 3329) and containing The Table and the Chair and The Jumblies (to be posted next Wednesday). This was followed by Parlophone R … Continue reading →

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The Owl and the Pussy-cat

Posted on November 30, 2005 by Marco Graziosi

I am still working on the new nonsenselit.org site, but have decided to take down the “Sounds” section and re-post weekly what was in it here. This week I’m posting a full BBC Radio 4 program of 2 December 2000 … Continue reading →

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Mr and Mrs Spikky Sparrow

Posted on November 17, 2005 by Marco Graziosi

This week’s song is from a three-record box published by Bluebird Records (made by RCA Victor) in the late 1930s early 1940s. Mr and Mrs Spikky Sparrow, music by Helen E. Myers, sung by Craig McDonnell.

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The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo

Posted on November 9, 2005 by Marco Graziosi

This week’s podcast is The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò, read by David Davis, side 2 of his 1966 45-rpm record, The Nonsense Songs of Edward Lear Read by David Davis, Delysé DEL 158. Side 1 has The Daddy Long-Legs and … Continue reading →

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