Category Archives: Edward Lear

Edward Lear, Ancient Gate of Alatri

Posted on May 14, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear’s lithograph of the Ancient Gate of Alatri from Views in Rome and Its Environs. In a coloured version, under Lear’s supervision? I’m finding more and more of these lithographs in colour, so perhaps the book was sold in different … Continue reading →

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A Batch of Irish Learics

Posted on May 12, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

In a previous post, like this one inspired by Doug Harris, I showed a page of “Irish Literary Learics” from   Idyls of Killowen: A Soggarth’s Secular Verses (London: James Bowden, 1899), by Matthew Russell, S.J. The same limericks, however had already … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear: A Commemorative Medal

Posted on May 10, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

British / French Commemorative Medal, bronze d.80mm: Edward Lear 1812-1888 Père du Non-Sens (medal) by Ronald Searle – famous satirist and illustrator, from his series The Fathers of Caricatures, 1970s, struck by the Monnaie de Paris (Paris Mint). A heavy … Continue reading →

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A Hierarchy of Nonsense, By John Kropf

Posted on May 8, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

[I receive from John Kropf, and publish.] For a couple of semesters in college I worked at the on-campus student coffee house, The Bandersnatch, named after the creature in Lewis Carroll’s famous nonsensical poem, Jabberwocky. When you work inside a … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, One Willow over the river hung

Posted on May 6, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

Tennyson (Alfred, Lord).- Lear (Edward) “One willow over the river hung… River Anio, Campagna di Roma”, lithograph on fine wove paper, image 165 x 255 mm (6 1/2 x 10 in), sheet 280 x 335 mm (11 x 13 1/4 … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear’s Calabria Journal edited by Raffaele Gaetano

Posted on May 1, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

Raffaele Gaetano has published a new edition of Giuseppe Isnardi’s historic translation of  Edward Lear’s Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria, & c. The book contains a long introduction by Gaetano and is richly illustrated with photographs showing … Continue reading →

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Wallace Stevens’s “playful, eroticized elaboration of Edward Lear”

Posted on April 17, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

Floral Decorations for Bananas by Wallace Stevens Well, nuncle, this plainly won’t do. These insolent, linear peels And sullen, hurricane shapes Won’t do with your eglantine. They require something serpentine. Blunt yellow in such a room! You should have had … Continue reading →

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On Bawdy Limericks and Edward Lear (again)

Posted on April 14, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

From the Vaughan Williams Foundation website: Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Ursula Wood Letter No.: VWL1485 From R. Vaughan Williams, The White Gates, Westcott Road, Dorking. [3 February 1940] My Dear I went and got a Lear1 at once – … Continue reading →

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Punch and “The Owl and the Pussy-cat”

Posted on March 28, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

Doug Harris reports on the conutinuing interest of Punch for Edward Lear’s most famous poem.  

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John Parry’s Stray Leaves from “A Book of Nonsense”

Posted on March 19, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

This page containing nine limericks (which was kindly provided by Doug Harris) comes from John Parry’s Ridiculous Things Scraps and Oddities: Some with and Many Without Meaning, London: T. McLean, 1854. In the November 20, 1869 issue of Once a … Continue reading →

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