Category Archives: Edward Lear

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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Celebrity voices on charity CD

Posted on October 17, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

Celebrity voices on charity CD Les Barker, 59, who lives in Bwlchgwyn near Wrexham, has released a poetry CD entitled Guide Cats for the Blind, to raise funds for the British Computer Association of the Blind. His style is in … Continue reading →

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Anyone for Tennyson?

Posted on October 17, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

Anyone for Tennyson? The Queen’s residence at Osbourne helped make the Isle of Wight fashionable among the cream of Victorian society: Charles Darwin, William Makepeace Thackeray, C. F. Watts and Julia Margaret Cameron, among others, all moved to Freshwater.Of these, … Continue reading →

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Sentimental journey

Posted on August 25, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

Exhibition: Natural Wonders: Visions of Home and Abroad Continue reading →

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Uncle Arly

Posted on August 23, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

My Uncle Arly, Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Rather endearingly unhinged, this celebration of the work of the nonsense poet Edward Lear takes the audience on a journey through France and Italy and into places in the mind that no map could … Continue reading →

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Records to tumble at Tatton

Posted on July 15, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

Records to tumble at Tatton [flower] show A show newcomer among 18 garden designers is Sarah Lynch, who has created the Owl and the Pussycat garden.Sarah, 36, who lives in Cheshire, is taking part in a flower show for the … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear's Tribute to the Moon

Posted on July 9, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

“Edward Lear’s Tribute to the Moon” A humourous exchange providing a deep interpretation of Lear’s limerick on the Old Man of the Hague.Google Groups

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Winged Migration simply soars

Posted on July 6, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

‘Winged Migration’ simply soarsThe movie’s [Winged Migration by Jacques Perrin] poetry, not its mechanics, will galvanize most viewers and cause them to look at birds less complacently, maybe for the rest of their lives. It’s a robust, multifaceted, gloriously accessible … Continue reading →

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