Category Archives: Edward Lear

Travels with Edward Lear

Posted on January 14, 2004 by Marco Graziosi

It’s hard to share the tastes of a collector Travels with Edward Lear – National Gallery of Scotland AS the author of such quaintly endearing Victorian-era “nonsense” as The Owl and the Pussycat and other such silly-but-enduring rhymes, you would … Continue reading →

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Exhibition shows more watercolourful side to Edward Lear

Posted on January 12, 2004 by Marco Graziosi

Exhibition shows more watercolourful side to Edward LearEDWARD Lear is best known as the writer of much loved nonsense verses such as The Owl and the Pussycat, but a new Edinburgh exhibition at the National Gallery of Scotland aims to … Continue reading →

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The Owl and the Pussy-cat

Posted on November 6, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

The Owl and the Pussy-cat Peter Martin has created a beautiful set of animated illustrations for the best-known of Lear’s poems. Take a look!

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Charles Causley

Posted on November 6, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

Charles Causley Charles Causley, who died on Tuesday aged 86, was among the most important British poets of his generation.Causley came to Westminster Abbey – once – for a ceremony, with appropriate music and readings, to unveil a stone to … Continue reading →

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Inbal Pinto

Posted on November 3, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

Inbal Pinto Inbal Pinto’s latest show, Boobies, creates a world in which characters from Edward Lear and Mervyn Peake might happily meet. On a beach sown with blue seagrass, a dropsy-bellied patriarch wages war against a sinister emerald-bearded merman. A … Continue reading →

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Foreign resident publishes book

Posted on November 2, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

Foreign resident publishes book Minster Giovanna Debono was the guest of honour at the launching of A Pomskizillious Recipe Book by Susan Lowe, last Sunday.After congratulating the writer, Minister Debono expressed her hope that other foreign residents in Gozo would … Continue reading →

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Telling tales is a treat for all children of all ages

Posted on October 19, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

Telling tales is a treat for all children of all ages… Rick Huddle steps up to recite Edward Lear’s rhyming story ‘The Dong With a Luminous Nose.’ The words belong to Lear but the telling is all Huddle, a mix … Continue reading →

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Rose-Red City Carved From the Rock

Posted on October 17, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

Rose-Red City Carved From the Rock In 1812 a Swiss-born, Cambridge-educated linguist named Johann Ludwig Burckhardt passed through the city en route from Syria to Egypt. He spent an uneasy three days there, unwelcomed as an outsider by the inhabitants, … Continue reading →

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Spike's sad sharp edge

Posted on October 17, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

Spike’s sad sharp edgeThose who grew up on The Goon Show will see him as later generations saw Monty Python – as the one who made sense by failing to do so, the great anarch who gave form to a … Continue reading →

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Nailing Spike

Posted on October 17, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

Nailing Spike [Milligan] The combination of Spike, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine, with help from deep-dish subversives emerging from their cocoons in the BBC, created an explosion of verbal anarchy that nevertheless flowed from a tradition, combining music … Continue reading →

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