Category Archives: Edward Lear

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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Edward Lear items at Christies

Posted on October 27, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

There are a number of Edward Lear watercolours for sale at Christie’s, mostly in the “British Art on Paper” sale of 16 November. If you have £20,000-30,000 you can also get: GOULD, John (1804-1881). A Monograph of the Ramphastidae, or … Continue reading →

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James T. Fields on Edward Lear

Posted on September 1, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

James Thomas Fields was the publisher of Our Young Folks , an American children’s magazine, which in 1870 first published three poems by Edward Lear, including “The Owl and the Pussy-Cat” (see the previous post: Lear Illustrated in America). In … Continue reading →

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Lear Vamping

Posted on August 31, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

Tennyson was always very satisfied with Lear’s arrangements of his poems and did not refrain from praising them in public though, as Angus Davidson notes in his 1938 biography, Edward Lear: Landscape Painter and Nonsense Poet (1812-1888) (London: John Murray), … Continue reading →

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