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- A Very Good Children’s Book (1865)
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- How Pleasant to Know Mr Lear (1932)
- G.K. Chesterton, Both Sides of the Looking-Glass (1933)
- G.K. Chesterton, Humour (1938)
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Category Archives: Edward Lear
A replica of the complete Birds of America
A replica of the complete Birds of America, by Audubon the only one who could compete with Lear in bird illustration.This site includes the full text and several indexes, but the scans could be better. Unfortunately, the Elwell Sale Stewart … Continue reading
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Foundation for the Preservation of the Hyacinth Macaw
Foundation for the Preservation of the Hyacinth Macaw A nonprofit foundation incorporated in 1991 with the goal of preserving the Hyacinth Macaw and other birds of the world’s tropics through education, research, ecotourism and captive breeding.[Has a gallery with some … Continue reading
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
The following items link to pages in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, with descriptions of collections containing Edward Lear material.
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Tennyson Collection
ALFRED TENNYSON COLLECTION Ongoing collection of documents acquired by gift and purchase from various sources. Type of accession (gift or purchase) and date of acquisition is noted in the box-and-folder list. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.[Includes several letters … Continue reading
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Television Program Scripts
STEVEN H. SCHEUER COLLECTION OF TELEVISION PROGRAM SCRIPTS [Includes script for a 10 Jun 1956 ‘Nonsense (Edward Lear)’ program.]Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
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OSBORN 19TH CENTURY BOUND MANUSCRIPTS (FOLIO)[Full list of the Osborn shelves material, which includes Lear watercolors.]Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
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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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