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The Russian Avant-Garde Book

Posted on April 19, 2002 by Marco Graziosi

The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910 – 1934 :: MoMA This is not strictly related to Edward Lear, but the exhibition deserves a visit, and many of the Russian futurists wrote Nonsense (zaum’). Be sure to have a look at the … Continue reading →

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Posted on April 7, 2002 by Marco Graziosi

Lyrics in the SwampPogo’s words are part nonsense, part down-home wisdom; part rural raillery, part parody of big-city and governmental jargon.The New York Review of Books

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The Eden of Dreams and the Nonsense Land

Posted on March 29, 2002 by Marco Graziosi

Mirva Saukkola: The Eden of Dreams and the Nonsense Land Subtitled “Characteristics of the British Golden Age Children’s Fiction in the Finnish Children’s Fantasy Literature of the 1950s”, this academic dissertation (May 2001, University of Helsinki, Institute for Art Research, … Continue reading →

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Beautiful Birds: Masterpieces from the Hill Ornithology Collection

Posted on February 19, 2002 by Marco Graziosi

Beautiful Birds: Masterpieces from the Hill Ornithology Collection Cornell University Library[Almost nothing on Lear, but interesting for background information, especially concerning the different techniques.]

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The True Mother Goose

Posted on February 11, 2002 by Marco Graziosi

The True Mother Goose Songs for the Nursery, Or, Mother Goose’s Melodies for Children. Notes and Pictures by Blanche McManus. Published by Lamson, Wolffe and Co., Boston. 1895.[A Kellscraft online facsimile edition.]

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Stanley Unwin: Master of nonsense

Posted on January 15, 2002 by Marco Graziosi

Stanley Unwin: Master of nonsense Professor” Stanley Unwin specialised in an unfathomable verbal style, replete with malapropisms and poetic gobbledegook.[Look at it only if you can bear to read the following statement: “Fascinated by the absurdity of this language and … Continue reading →

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Obituary: Stanley Unwin

Posted on January 15, 2002 by Marco Graziosi

Obituary: Stanley Unwin Few variety artistes have caught the public�s imagination quite like Stanley Unwin, the self-styled �Professor of Unwinese�, a glottal-stopped gobbledegookian language that sounded deceptively like English trying to swallow itself. For more than fifty years he gave … Continue reading →

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La campagna romana da Hackert a Balla

Posted on December 29, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

La campagna romana da Hackert a Balla[Announcement of an Italian exhibition of paintings of the Roman campagna; no mention of Lear, though he was active in the same years.]

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The Phonosemantics of Nasal-Stop Clusters

Posted on December 5, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

The Phonosemantics of Nasal-Stop Clusters by Ralph Emerson The humorousness of nasal-stops also makes them one of the secrets of nonsense poets. Dr. Seuss’s books have dozens of nasal-stop coinages, from the Grinch to the Rink-Rinker-Fink. The flora and fauna … Continue reading →

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A Taxonomy of Sound Poetry

Posted on December 2, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

Dick Higgins, A TAXONOMY OF SOUND POETRY [From one of the best sites I know, an essay on ‘sound poetry’ which mentions Lear � and Nonsense poetry in general � as a predecessor.__ U B U W E B__ : … Continue reading →

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