Category Archives: Edward Lear

BURNEY-LEAR DRAWINGSThe Burney-Lear Drawings consists of over 1,000 watercolors, sketches, and drawings by Edward Francis Burney, other members of the Burney family, members of the Hoare family, Edward Lear, and others. Most of the drawings are unsigned, and some of … Continue reading

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Edward Lear. The author of one of the most original books of comic verse ever written, Edward Lear, though he was a great traveller, had not much to do with Bohemia. An artist he was in more than one sense … Continue reading

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Self-similar syncopations

Self-similar syncopations: Fibonacci, L-systems, limericks and ragtime[This is an alternative (USA) URL for the same article mentioned below: it is really very interesting!]

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Self-similar syncopation

Self-similar syncopations: Fibonacci, L-systems, limericks and ragtime There are interesting symmetries shared by the limerick and ragtime, which can be observed and heard in their family groups of stressed and unstressed syllables, or beats, and which lie at the heart … Continue reading

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Knowsley Safari Park

Knowsley Safari Park [Knowsley is now a small zoo.]

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Edward Lear in Greece

Edward Lear in Greece Edward Lear toured Albania, Epirus, Macedonia and Thessaly in the spring-autumn of 1848. Accompanied by his Greek “Dragoman” -an interepreter who was proficient in ten languages- he explored the unknown and intriguing corners of -what was … Continue reading

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There Was an Old Man with a Beard

[minstrels] There Was an Old Man with a Beard — Edward LearLear’s limericks are defined, arrgh, ‘*boring*’: an heresy in an otherwise wonderful site.

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The Akond of Swat

[minstrels] The Akond of Swat — Edward Lear

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The Owl and the Pussy-Cat

[minstrels] The Owl and the Pussy-Cat — Edward Lear See the previous item.

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The Pobble Who Has No Toes

[minstrels] The Pobble Who Has No Toes — Edward Lear The Lear poem with a short, but funny, commentary.

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