Devices and desires

Posted on August 21, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

Devices and desires
Tennessee Williams once said that his plays were built on the wreckage of the American family. This is true, of course – the same could be said of Theodore Dreiser’s immensely gloomy novels – and yet the wreckage of Williams’s own family life comes carefully concealed, its frets and fractures covered up with all manner of innocuous lumber.
The Sunday Times

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Two Articles

Posted on August 20, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

Here are a couple of articles with references to Edward Lear:
PET TRADE BLUES (the efforts and moral problems involved in attempting to save Brazil’s Lear’s macaws from extinction), by Richard Hartley, from International Wildlife, March-April, 2000.
Voyage of a painter (Charles-Alexandre Lesueur), by Errol Fuller, from Natural History, April, 1998.

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Drawing Notebook

Posted on August 19, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

artnet.com Magazine Reviews – Drawing Notebook
He called himself “The Painter of Poetical Topography,” but the world knows this superb draughtsman better as the inventor of the limerick. He was the Englishman Edward Lear (1812-1888).

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John Gould (1841-1881)

Posted on August 19, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

John Gould (1841-1881)
John Gould (1804-1881) was the most prolific artist and publisher of ornithological subjects of all time. In nineteenth century Europe his name was as well known as Audubon’s was here in North America. Unlike Audubon, whose life’s work focused on one region, Gould traveled widely and employed other artists to help create his lavish hand-colored lithographic folios. Nearly 3,000 lithographs were created during the span of his long career.

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Land of make-believe

Posted on August 11, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

Land of make-believe
Eggs on legs and free booze: Marilyn Corrie enters a medieval fantasy in Dreaming of Cockaigne: Medieval Fantasies of the Perfect Life by Herman Pleij
Guardian Unlimited Books

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Inventing Wonderland by Jackie Wullschlager

Posted on August 11, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

Biography choice: Inventing Wonderland by Jackie Wullschlager
Edward Lear lived a solitary life, preferring children to adults as an escape from his homosexuality. Lear�s attitude to children is presented as being the kindest, his nonsense limericks having none of the menace of Carroll�s work.
The Times

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Twentieth-Century American Children's Literature

Posted on August 2, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

Twentieth-Century American Children’s Literature

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Lear-ing

Posted on July 18, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

Lear-ing
by David Noland, about Lear’s travels in Calabria.
Delta-Sky.com

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Word-Twisting versus Nonsense

Posted on July 12, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

Word-Twisting versus Nonsense
from The Spectator, reprinted in Littell’s Living Age, Fifth Series, Volume LVIII, Apr-May-Jun 1887, pp. 379-81.

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A Review of Illustrated Excursions in Italy

Posted on July 12, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

A Review of Illustrated Excursions in Italy
(and Fanny Kemble’s A Year of Consolation) from the Quarterly Review, reprinted in Littell’s Living Age, no. 187, 11 December 1847, pp. 481-94.
Cornell University Making of America

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