Category Archives: Edward Lear

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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The Book of Nonsense as a Colouring Book

Posted on August 28, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

Now and then you can see listed on eBay copies of Edward Lear’s Book of Nonsense in which some or all of the pictures have been coloured. Lear’s childish drawing style, with its large spaces waiting to be filled with … Continue reading →

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Self-Reference in Lear s Limericks

Posted on March 27, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

The documents section of nonsenselit.org now contains a recent essay on Edward Lear: Winfried Nöth. “The Art of Self-Reference in Edward Lear’s Limericks.” Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 10.1, 2005, pp. 47-66. Many thanks to professor Nöth … Continue reading →

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The Owl and the Pussycat Went to See. . .

Posted on March 16, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

The Owl and the Pussycat Wen to See… is a musical play adapted from the verses and stories of Edward Lear by Sheila Ruskin and David Wood (who wrote the music and lyrics). The LP (Philips 6308022) was published in … Continue reading →

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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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