Studies on Edward Lear

This page contains books and articles specifically about Edward Lear; it should be integrated with the one on Nonsense literature, all of whose items contain discussions of Lear.

“[Fanny Kemble and Edward Lear in Italy].” Littel’s Living Age 15 (1847): 481-94.

Fields, James Thomas. Underbrush. Boston: James R. Osgood  and Company, 1877. 52-6.

Strachey, Sir Edward. “Talk at a Country House: Taking Leave; Emile Souvestre; Edward Lear; Retrospect.” The Atlantic Monthly 143 (1894): 625-36. Reprinted in Talk at a Country House: Fact and Fiction. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1895. 209-35.

Chesterton, Gilbert K. “A Defence of Nonsense.” The Defendant. London: R. Brimley Johnson, 1901. 42-50. 

Malcolm, Ian. “Edward Lear.” The Cornhill Magazine n.s. 24  (1908): 25-36. The Pursuit of Leisure & Other Essays. London: E. Benn limited, 1929. 108-123. 

Jackson, Holbrook. “Masters of Nonsense.” All Manner of Folks: Interpretations and Studies. London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1912. 30-44.   

Matews, Gregory M. “Dates of Issue of Lear’s Illustrations of the Psittaccidae.” Austral Avian Record 1.1 (1912).

Huxley, Aldous. “Edward Lear”. On the Margin. London: Chatto and Windus, 1923. 167-72.

Hardie, Martin. “Edward Lear.” Artwork 22 (summer 1930): 114-8.

Coolidge, Bertha. “How Pleasant to Know Mister Lear!” The Colophon pt. 9.6 (1932).

Osgood Field, William B. Edward Lear on my Shelves. Munich: privately printed by the Bremer Press, 1933.

Happel, Ralph. “Edward Lear, King of Nonsense.” University of Virginia, 1934.

Izzo, Carlo. “L’umorismo alla luce del Book of Nonsense.” Ateneo Veneto 26 (1935): 211-19.

Leimert, Erika. “Die Nonsense-poesie von Edward Lear.” Neueren Sprachen 45 (1937): 368-73.

Bonello, Vincenzo. “Maltese Watercolours by Edward Lear and H. De Chacaton.” Bulletin of the Museum, Valletta 1.8 (1937?): 189-94.

Megroz, R.L. “The Master of Nonsense.” The Cornhill Magazine 157 (1938): 175-90.

Davidson, Angus. Edward Lear: Landscape Painter and Nonsense Poet. London: John Murray, 1938 Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967.

Nock, S.A. “Lachrimae Nugarum: Edward Lear of the Nonsense Verses.” Sewanee Review 49 (1941): 68-81.

Praz, Mario. “Edward Lear.” Motivi e figure. Torino: Einaudi, 1945. 92-5.

Orwell, George. “Nonsense Poetry.” Tribune 21 December 1945. Reprinted in Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays. London: Sacker and Warburg, 1950. 179-84.

Reade, Brian. “The Birds of Edward Lear.” Signature 4 (1947).

Gaunt, William. “The Two-Sided Mr. Lear.” Art News Annual. New York: The Art Foundation, 1948.

Reade, Brian. Edward Lear’s Parrots. London: Duckworth, 1949; reprinted as An Essay on Edward Lear’s Illustrations of the Psittaccidea, or Parrots. New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1979.

Anderson, Jørgen. “Edward Lear and the Origins of Nonsense.” English Studies 31 (1950): 161-6.

Brockway, J.J. “Edward Lear: Poet.” Fortnightly Review 167 (1950): 334-9.

Eliot, Thomas Stearns. “The Aims of Education. 1. Can Education Be Defined?” To Criticize the Critic. Faber and Faber, 1950. 61-76.

Dyson, A.E. “Method in Madness: A Note on Edward Lear.” English 10.60 (1955): 221-24.

Edward Lear, 1812-1888; an Exhibition of Oil Paintings, Water-Colours and Drawings, Books and Prints, Manuscripts, Photographs and Records. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1958.

Carrington, Dorothy. “En 1868, un paysagiste anglais découvre la Corse.” Etudes corses  n.s. 25 (1960): 38-43. 

Drawings by Edward Lear; an Exhibition at the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, November through December, 1962. San Marino: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 1962.

Hofer, Philip. Edward Lear. New York: Oxford University Press, 1962. 

Bury, Adrian. “The Other Side of Edward Lear.” Antique Collector August 1963.

Hofer, Philip. “Edward Lear: One of the Ablest Topographical Draughtsmen of His Time.” Conoisseur January 1964.

Lambourne, Maureen. “Birds of a Feather: Edward Lear and Elizabeth Gould.” Country Life June 1964.

Edward Lear: Drawings from a Greek Tour. Sheffield: Graves Art Gallery, 1964.

Nixon, Harold. “The Second Lithographic Edition of Lear’s Book of Nonsense.” British Museum Quarterly 28 (1964): 7-8.

Richardson, Johanna. Edward Lear. ‘Writers and Their Work’ no. 184. London: Longman, 1965.

Civ’ian, T.V., and D.M. Segal. “Struttura della poesia inglese del Nonsense (sulla base dei Limericks di Edward Lear).” I sistemi di segni e lo strutturalismo sovietico. Eds. Faccani, Remo and Umberto Eco. Milano: Bompiani, 1969. 151-61. Original edition”K strukture anglijskoj poezii nonsensa (na materiale limerikov E. Lira).” Trudy po znakovym sistemam II, 1965. 320-329.

Barker, Warren J. “The Nonsense of Edward Lear.” The Psychoanalytic Quarterly 35 (1966): 568-86.

Hofer, Philip. Edward Lear as a Landscape Draughtsman. Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard University Press, 1967.

Hofer, Philip, and Randall Thompson. “The Yonghy Bonghy Bò.” Harvard Library Bulletin 15 (1967): 229-37. 

Edward Lear, Painter, Poet and Draughtsman. An Exhibition of Drawings, Watercolors, Oils, Nonsense and Travel Books. Ed. Eleanor M. Garvey. Worcester: Worcester Art Museum, 1968.

Edward Lear. David Roberts. New York: Davis Galleries, 1968.

Schöne, Annemarie. “Edward Lears Nonsense-Balladen.” Neueren Sprachen n.s. 18 (1969): 268-77.

Richardson, Johanna. “Edward Lear: Man of Letters.” Ariel 1.4 (1969): 18-28.

Noakes, Vivien. Edward Lear: The Life of a Wanderer. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. Revised paperback edition, London: Fontana/Collins, 1979. Revised and enlarged edition Stroud: Sutton, 2004.

Fink, Guido. “Lear, il ‘Nonsense’ e l’epiteto ‘differente’.” Paragone 259 (1970): 155-61.

Christopher, J.R. “Three Notes on Edward Lear.” Unicorn 2.3 (1970): 12-4.

Edward Lear in Greece; a Loan Exhibition from the Gennadius Library, Athens. Circulated by the International Exhibitions Foundation, 1971-1972. Meriden, Conn.: Meriden Gravure Co., 1971.

Graffi, Milli. “Edward Lear: Una logica del nonsense.” Il verri n.s. 1 (1971): 114-30.

Christopher, J.R. “Two More Notes on Edward Lear.” Unicorn 3.1 (1971): 12-4.

Neve, Christopher. “There Was a Young Person Of… Edward Lear’s Birds.” Country Life April 1972.

Miller, Edmund. “Two Approaches to Edward Lear’s Songs.” Victorian Newsletter 44 (1973): 5-8.

Kelen, Emery. Mr Nonsense. A Life of Edward Lear. London: McDonald and Jane’s, 1974.

Ede, Lisa Susan. “The Nonsense Literature of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll.” Ohio State University, 1975.

Edward Lear & Knowsley: an exhibition of watercolours belonging to the Earl of Derby Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, 1975. Liverpool: Walker Art Gallery, 1975.

Lehman, John. Edward Lear and His World. London: Thames and Hudson,, 1977.

Byrom, Thomas. Nonsense and Wonder: The Poems and Cartoons of Edward Lear. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1977.

Bouissac, Paul. “Decoding Limericks: A Structuralist Approach.” Semiotica 19 (1977): 1-12.

Hark, Ina Rae. “Edward Lear: Eccentricity and Victorian ‘Angst’.” Victorian Poetry 16 (1978): 112-22.

Ehrenpreis, Anne Henry. “Edward Lear Signs Tennyson’s Songs.” Harvard Library Bulletin 27 (1979): 65-85. 

Hyman, Susan. Edward Lear’s Birds. London: Weidenfield and Nicholson, 1980.

Lyons, Anne Kearns, Thomas R. Lyons, and Michael James Preston. A Concordance to the Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear. Norwood, Pa.: Norwood Editions, 1980.

Willis, Gary. “Two Different Kettles of Talking Fish: The Nonsense of Lear and Carroll.” Jabberwocky: The Journal of the Lewis Carroll Society 9, no. 4 (1980): 87-94.

Copley, L.A. “Edward Lear – Composer.” Musical Opinion October 1980: 8-9, 12, 39.

Korn, Frederick. Edward Lear’s a Book of Nonsense: A Description of Holdings in the John M. Shaw Collection, Florida State University. Tallahassee, Fla.: Friends of the Florida State University Library, 1981.

Miller Robinson, Fred. “Nonsense and Sadness in Donald Bartheleme and Edward Lear.” South Atlantic Quarterly 80 (1981): 164-76.

How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear: Watercolors by Edward Lear from Rhode Island Collections. Ed. L. Candace Pezzera. Providence, R.I.: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1982.

Hark, Ina Rae. Edward Lear. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982.

Harmon, William. “Lear, Limericks, and Some Other Verse Forms.” Children’s Literature: an International Journal. Annual of the Modern Language Association 10 (1982): 70-6.

Graziosi, Marco. “Testo verbale e testo iconico nei limericks di Edward Lear.” Università degli studi di Bologna. Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, 1982.

The Travels of Edward Lear. London: Fine Art Society, 1983.

Baker, William. “T.S. Eliot on Edward Lear: An Unnoted Attribution.” English Studies 64 (1983): 564-6.

Imholtz, Augustus A. “The Owl and the Panther: Lewis Carroll’s Parody of Edward Lear’s ‘The Owl and the Pussy Cat’.” Jabberwocky: The Journal of the Lewis Carroll Society 12, no. 3 (1983): 62-5.

Colley, Ann C. “Edward Lear and Thomas Seddon: The Paradox of Inquiry.” Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies 5.1 (1984): 36-48.

Woddis, Anna. “’More or Less a Sorrow’: Some Observations on the Work of Edward Lear.” Pictures at an Exhibition (Psychology Revivals): Selected Essays on Art and Art Therapy. Eds. Gilroy, Andrea and Tessa Dalley. 2014 ed. London: Routledge, 1984. 

Livingston, Myra Cohn. “Letter to the Editor.” Jabberwocky: The Journal of the Lewis Carroll Society 14, no. 1 (1984/85): 18-20. [A reply and confutation of Imholtz 1983.]

Edward Lear 1812-1888. Eds. Vivien Noakes, Steven Runciman and Jeremy Maas. London: Royal Academy of Arts and Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1985.

Bruni Roccia, Gioiella. “Il problema del testo nel Book of Nonsense di Edward Lear.” Studi italiani di linguistica teorica e applicata 14 (1985): 239-87.

Noakes, Vivien. “No-Nonsense Natural History of Edward Lear.” New Scientist, 25 April 1985, 48-50.

Ord, Priscilla. “‘There Was an Old Derry Down Derry, Who Loved to Make Little Folks Merry’: A Closer Look at the Limericks of Edward Lear.” Literary Onomastics Studies 12 (1985): 93-118.

Livingston, Myra Cohn. A Learical Lexicon: From the Works of Edward Lear. New York: Atheneum, 1985.

Clark, Arthur. “The Was a Young Man Named Lear.” Aramco World Magazine 37.4 (1986): 2-9.

Hearn, Michael Patrick. “How Pleasant Is It to Know Mr. Lear?” American Book Collector 7.1 (1986): 21-7.

Gallup, Donald Clifford. “Collecting Edward Lear.” Yale University Library Gazette 61.3-4 (1986): 125-42.

Colley, Ann C. “Edward Lear and the Pre-Raphaelite Impossibility: Reflections on the Lear Exhibit: The National Academy of Design, New York, September 10-November 3, 1985.” Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies 7.1 (1986): 44-9.

Grassi, Aldo Vittorio. “L’universo nonsensico dei ‘limerick’ di Edward Lear.” Humanitas: Rivista di cultura 41 (1986): 703-13.

Fiorentino, Emmanuel. “Edward Lear in Malta.” Proceedings of History Week 1984  (1986): 33-40. 

Caboni, Alessandro. Nonsense: Edward Lear e la tradizione del nonsense inglese. Roma: Bulzoni, 1988.

Pitman, Ruth. Edward Lear’s Tennyson. Manchester: Carcanet, 1988.

Colley, Ann C. “Edward Lear’s Limericks and the Reversals of Nonsense.” Victorian Poetry 26 (1988): 285-99.

Colley, Ann C. “The Limerick and the Space of Metaphor.” Genre 21 (1988): 65-91.

Byrne, Peter. “Il nonsense tra logica e arte.” Segni e comprensione 2 4 (1988): 18-23.

Chitty, Susan. That Singular Person Called Lear. London: Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1988. New York: Atheneum, 1989.

Dehejia, Vidya. Impossible Picturesqueness: Edward Lear’s Indian Watercolours, 1873-1875. With an essay by Allen Staley. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.

Bowersock, Glenn Warren. “Edward Lear in Petra.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 134.3 (1990): 309-20. Now in Bowerstock, G.W. From Gibbon to Auden: Essays on the Classical Tradition. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. 98-108.

Kamen, Gloria. Edward Lear, King of Nonsense: A Biography. New York: Atheneum, 1990.

Hark, Ina Rae. “The Jew as Victorian Cultural Signifier: Illustrated by Edward Lear.” Bucknell Review: Journal of Letters, Arts and Sciences 34 (1990): 82-98.

Rieke, Alison. “Stevens in Corsica, Lear in New Haven.” The New England Quarterly 63.1 (1990): 35-59.

Noakes, Vivien. The Painter Edward Lear. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1991.

Snider, Clifton. “Victorian Trickster: A Jungian Consideration of Edward Lear’s Nonsense Verse.” Psychological Perspectives 24 (1991).

Colley, Ann C. “Edward Lear’s Anti-Colonial Bestiary.” Victorian Poetry 30 (1992): 109-20.

Byrne, Peter. “Edward Lear in Liguria.”  Viaggiatori Stranieri in Liguria. Ed. Emanuele Kanceff. Genève: Slatkine, 1992.

Colley, Ann C. Edward Lear and the Critics. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1993.

Olson, Kirby. “Edward Lear: Deleuzian Landscape Painter.” Victorian Poetry 31 (1993): 347-62.

Ponterotto, Diane. “Rule-Breaking and Meaning-Making in Edward Lear.” Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 6 (1993): 153-61.

Leclercq, Guy. “Le rire de Lear — en français.” Palimpsestes: Revue de traduction 6 (1993).

Dilworth, Thomas. “Society and the Self in the Limericks of Lear.” Review of English Studies 45.177 (1994): 42-62.

Edward Lear (1812-1888): Il viaggio come avventura estetica. Ed. Alessandro Porro. Milano: Finarte, 1994.

Levi, Peter. Edward Lear: A Biography. London: Macmillan, 1995.

Wullschlager, Jackie. Inventing Wonderland: The Lives and Fantasies of Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, J.M. Barrie, Kenneth Grahame and A.A. Milne. London: Methuen, 1995.

Dilworth, Thomas. “Edward Lear’s Suicide Limerick.” Review of English Studies 46.184 (1995): 535-8.

Leclercq, Guy. “Le rire et le sourire d’Edward Lear.” Interfaces 8 (1995).

Ávila, Myriam. Rima e solução. A poesia nonsense de Lewis Carroll e Edward Lear. São Paulo (Br): Annablume, 1996. 

Karagjozi, Afrim Q. Eduard Liri: Piktor, Poet, Udhëtar, 1812-1888. Tiranë: Botimet Enciklopedike, 1997.

Edward Lear (Holloway 1812-Sanremo 1888). Eds. Valerie Wadsworth and Rodolfo Falchi. Poggibonsi: Lalli, 1997.

Stemmler, Theo. “Edward Lears Zoo.”  Sinn Im Unsinn. Über Unsinndichtung Vom Mittelalter Bis Zum 20. Jahrhundert. Eds. Theo Stemmler and Stephan Horlacher. Tübingen: Narr, 1997. 71-86.

Rieder, John. “Edward Lear’s Limericks: The Function of  Children’s Nonsense Poetry.” Children’s Literature 26 (1998): 47-60.

Viola, Antonella. Edward Lear: un vedutista inglese in Basilicata. Potenza: Tipolitografia Olita R. & C., 1998.

Finlay, Nancy. “A Gift of Nonsense: An Edward Lear Manuscript.” Biblion: the Bulletin of the New York Public Library 7.1 (1998): 5– 19.

Heyman, Michael Benjamin. “Isles of Boshen: Edward Lear’s Literary Nonsense in Context.” University of Glasgow, Faculty of Arts, Department of English Literature, 1999.

Morini, Massimiliano. “‘How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear!’: Edward Lear and the Sympathetic Reader.” Rivista di Studi Vittoriani 4.8 (1999): 93-109.

Charles Lewsen in How Pleasant to Know Mr Lear. Programme with essays by R. Fowler, V. Noakes, R. McCracken Peck, R. Pitman, J.G. Schiller, J. Swales, and poems by W.H. Auden, G. Benson, C. Causley, H. Dunmore, U.A. Fanthorpe, P. Gross, A. Mitchell, R. McGough, I. McMillan, T. Paulin, P. Porter, A. Tennyson, A. Thorpe, J. Whitworth. Bristol: The Friends of the British Oncology Centre, 2000.

Heyman, Michael. “A New Defense of Nonsense; or, ‘Where, Then Is His Phallus?’ and Other Questions Not to Ask.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 24.4 (2000): 187-194.

Wilcox, Scott. Edward Lear and the Art of Travel. New Haven, CT: Yale Center for British Art, 2000.

Sala, Michele. “Lear’s Nonsense: Beyond Children’s Literature”.  2000. nonsenselit.org. Ed. Marco Graziosi. <http://www.nonsenselit.org/content/view/68/57/&gt;.

Drummond, Maldwin. “Edward Lear: Poet and Artist in Ligury.”  Da Ulisse a Ulisse (il viaggio come mito letterario). Atti del Convegno Internazionale, Imperia, 5-6 Ottobre. Ed. Giorgetta Revelli. Pisa: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2001.

Novi Ceppelini, Nucci. “A proposito di Edward Lear e dei Drummonds.”  Da Ulisse a Ulisse (il viaggio come mito letterario). Atti del Convegno Internazionale, Imperia, 5-6 Ottobre. Ed. Giorgetta Revelli. Pisa: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2001.

Updike, John. “Lear, Far and Near.” The New York Review of Books 48.1 (2001).

Treuherz, Julian. “Edward Lear in Syracuse.” Burlington Magazine 144.1194 (2002): 532-8.

McCracken Peck, Robert. “The 13th Earl of Derby’s Support for Edward Lear, Natural History Artist.”  A Passion for Natural History: The Life and Legacy of the 13th Earl of Derby. Ed. Clemency Fisher. Liverpool: National Museum and Galleries on Merseyside, 2002. 164-73.

Morris, Edward. “The 13th Earl of Derby’s Patronage of Edward Lear in Italy.”  A Passion for Natural History: The Life and Legacy of the 13th Earl of Derby. Ed. Clemency Fisher. Liverpool: National Museum and Galleries on Merseyside, 2002. 173-83.

Tsigakou, Fani-Maria. “Reassessing the Edward Lear Collection at the Benaki Museum.” Μουσείο Μπενάκη 2 (2002): 137-46.

Satpathy, Sumaryu. “Lear’s India and the Politics of Nonsense.” Children’s Literature and the Fin de Siècle. Ed. McGillis, Roderick. Westport (CT): Praeger, 2003. 73-80. 

Aira, César. Edward Lear. El Escribiente. Rosario, Argentina: Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2004.

Andreu, Maribel, and Pilar Orero. “La traducció a l’italià dels primers versos dels limericks d’Edward Lear.” Quaderns. Revista de traducció 11 (2004): 187-200.

Williams, James. “Edward Lear”. The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 20 July 2004.

Maynard, John. “Two Mad-Dog Englishmen in the Corfu Sun: Lawrence Durrell and Edward Lear.” Lawrence Durrell and the Greek World. Ed. Lillios, Anna. London: Associated University Presses, 2004. 255-269 

Sinclair Galea, Catherine. “Edward Lear.” Treasures of Malta 12.1 (2005).

Nöth, Winfried. “The Art of Self-Reference in Edward Lear’s Limericks.” Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 10.1 (2005): 47-66.  Then in Literatur und Lebenskunst: Festschrift für Gerd Rohmann. Ed. Eva Oppermann. Kassel: Kassel University Press, 2006. 131-145. 

Pereira, Conceição. “Nonsense e Literatura Infantil: os Limericks de Edward Lear.” A Criança, a Língua, o Imaginário e o Texto Literário. Actas do II Congresso Internacional. Universidade do Minho – Instituto de Estudos da Criança, 2006.

Nugent, Charles. “Some unpublished drawings by Edward Lear of British subjects.” The British Art Journal 8.1 (2007): 24-29.

Walchester, Kathryn. “Non vedete. È una rivoluzione: Edward Lear Landscape Painter and Italy.” Journal of Tourism Consumption and Practice 1.1 (2009): 53-73.

Ward, Shane. “The Owl and the Pussycat: A Conspiracy Theory”.  2007.  (November 18, 2007):  AuthorsDen.com. 1 March 2010.

Barton, Anna. “Boz, Ba and Derry Down Derry Names and Pseudonyms in Victorian Literature.” Literature Compass 6, no. 3 (2009): 799-809.

Barton, Anna. “Delirious Bulldogs and Nasty Crockery: Tennyson as Nonsense Poet.” Victorian Poetry 47, no. 1 (2009): 313-30.

Palumbo, Angelica. “Edward Lear in Italy: Mediterranean Landscapes as Inspiration for a Rhizomic System of Nonsense.” In The Victorians and Italy: Literature, Travel, Politics and Art, edited by Alessandro Vescovi, Luisa Villa and Paul Vita, 247-61. Monza: Polimetrica, 2009. Open Access Book.

Maxwell, Richard. “Palms and Temples: Edward Lear’s Topographies.” Victorian Poetry 48, no. 1 (2010): 73-94.

Lei, Zhang. “An Analysis of Aesthetic Features of Edward Lear’s Nonsense Verse.” The World Literature Criticism 2010-1 (2010).

Waltrick do Amarante, Dirce. “Edward Lear e seu ‘nonsense’ errante.” Aletria – Revista de Estudos de Literatura 20, no. 2 (2010): 133-39.

Zirker, Angelika. “Don’t Play with Your Food? – Edward Lear’s Nonsense Cookery and Limericks.” The Pleasures and Horrors of Eating: The Cultural History of Eating in Anglophone Literature. Eds. Gymnich, Marion and Norbert Lennartz. Göttingen: Bonn University Press, 2010. 237-53. 

McCracken Peck, Robert. “The natural History of Edward Lear.” Harvard Library Bulletin 22, nos. 2-3 (2011): 1-68.

Mayo, Hope. “The Edward Lear Collection at Harvard University.” Harvard Library Bulletin 22, nos. 2-3 (2011): 69-124.

Duckworth, Stephen. “Edward Lear’s Cretan Drawings.” The New Griffon 12  (2011).  Website.

Wong, Mou-Lan. “Trauma, Travel, and Regeneration: Picturesque and Nonsense in Edward Lear.” The 19th Annual English and American Literature Association Conference: Trauma and Literature. 2011. 

Montgomery, Michael. The Owl and the Pussy Cats: Lear in Love, the Untold Story. Brighton: Pen Press, 2012.

Macrì, Giuseppe F. Il tempo, il viaggio e lo spirito negli inediti di Edward Lear in Calabria. Reggio Calabria: Laruffa, 2012

Sellick, Rob. “The Birds of Edward Lear.” Kunapipi 34 2 (2012): 113-22.

Henchman, Anna. “Edward Lear Dismembered: Word Fragments and Body Parts.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal 35.5 (2013): 479-87.

Ciornei, Ileana-Silvia. “The Nonsense World of Edward Lear.” Language and Literature: European Landmarks of Identity 10  (2012): 64-68.

Varriano, John. “Edward Lear in Malta: New Revelations.” Treasures of Malta 58 (2013): 48-56.

Brown, Daniel. “Professionals and Amateurs, Work and Play: William Rowan Hamilton, Edward Lear and James Clerk Maxwell.” The Poetry of Victorian Scientists: Style, Science and Nonsense. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 1-38. 

Byrne, Peter. “Pursuing Tennyson in Tight Shoes.” Able Muse: A Review of Poetry, Prose & Art 16 (2013): 89-99.

Finnerty, Páraic. “‘This Is the Sort of Fame for Which I Have Given My Life’: G.F. Watts, Edward Lear and Portraits of Fame and Nonsense.” Victorian Celebrity Culture and Tennyson’s Circle. Eds. Boyce, Charlotte, Páraic Finnerty and Anne-Marie Millim. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 53-96. 

Hugh Haughton, “Edward Lear and ‘The Fiddlediddlety of Representation.'” The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry. Edited by Matthew Bevis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 351-369.

Barton, Anna, and Catherine Bates. “‘Beautiful Things’: Nonsense and the Museum.” Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians: From Commodities to Oddities. Eds. Shears, Jonathon and Jen Harrison. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. 49-65.

Bevis, Matthew. “Edward Lear’s lines of flight.” Journal of the British Academy 1 (2013): 31-69. 

Colley, Ann C. “Edward Lear and Victorian Animal Portraiture.” RSV: Rivista di Studi Vittoriani 34-35 (2013): 11-26. [Expanded and republished as chapter 3 of her Wild Animal Skins in Victorian Britain: Zoos, Collections, Portraits, and Maps. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014.]

Marroni, Francesco. “Edward Lear and Albania.” RSV: Rivista di Studi Vittoriani 34-35 (2013): 27-49. 

Marroni, Francesco. “Byron, Edward Lear and the Riddle of Albania.” Skills and Tools to the Cultural Heritage and Cultural Tourism Management. Eds. Santoro, Sara, Eva Subias and Gloria Bolzoni. Teramo: Edizioni D’Errico, 2013. 85-106. 

Dilworth, Thomas. “Lear’s Italian Limericks.” RSV: Rivista di Studi Vittoriani 34-35 (2013): 51-78.

Lodge, Sara. “My Dear Daddy: Edward Lear and William Holman Hunt.” RSV: Rivista di Studi Vittoriani 34-35 (2013): 79-99.

Bruni Roccia, Gioiella. “Edward Lear’s Metaphorical Mind: A Cognitive Approach to A Book of Nonsense.” RSV: Rivista di Studi Vittoriani 34-35 (2013): 101-18.

Tigges, Wim. “Edward Lear’s Limericks and the Aesthetics of Nonsense.” RSV: Rivista di Studi Vittoriani 34-35 (2013): 119-38.

Williams, James. “Edward Lear’s Luminous Prose.” RSV: Rivista di Studi Vittoriani 34-35 (2013): 139-58.

Antinucci, Raffaella. “‘… in those few bright (Abruzzi) days’: Edward Lear’s Landscaping Gaze and the Discovery of Abruzzo.” RSV: Rivista di Studi Vittoriani 34-35 (2013): 159-88.

Soccio, Anna Enrichetta. “Struggling with Genres: Edward Lear’s Short Stories.” RSV: Rivista di Studi Vittoriani 34-35 (2013): 189-201.

Firtich, Nikolai. “The Artists of Nonsense: Nikolai Gogol and Edward Lear.” Alexandrov Festschrift. Articles in Honor of Vladimir Alexandrov. A special volume of Transactions of the Association of Russian American Scholars in the U.S.A. 38 (2013): 157-92.

Varriano, John. Edward Lear in Malta. Valletta: Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti, 2014.

Springer, Olga. “‘That Imprudent Old Person of Chili’: Individual and They in Edward Lear’s Limericks.” Politics and Ideology in Children’s Literature. Eds. Keyes, Marian Thérèse and Áine McGillicuddy. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2014.

Russell, Quentin. “In the footsteps of Edward Lear (1812-1888) Assessing the legacy of his 1848 Balkan journey.” British Art Journal 15.2 (2014): 59-67. 

Minslow, Sarah. “Challenging the Impossibility of Children’s Literature: The Emancipatory Qualities of Edward Lear’s Nonsense.” Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature 53.3 (2015): 46-55.

Tabone, Joseph Attard. “Edward Lear in Gozo, March 1866.” Every Traveller Needs a Compass: Travel and Collecting in Egypt and the Near East. Eds. Cooke, Neil and Vanessa Daubney. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2015. 15-21. 

Antinucci, Raffaella. “‘Sensational Nonsense.’ Edward Lear and the (Im)purity of Nonsense Writing.” English Literature 2.2 (2015): 291-311. 

Attenborough, David. “Edward Lear and the 13th Earl of Derby.” Art, Animals and Politics: Knowslay and the Earls of Derby. Ed. Lloyd, Stephen. London: Unicorn Publishing Group, 2015. 142-57.

Fisher, Clemency. “The 13th Earl of Derby’s Menagerie and Aviary at Knowsley.” Art, Animals and Politics: Knowslay and the Earls of Derby. Ed. Lloyd, Stephen. London: Unicorn Publishing Group, 2015. 158-72.

Harrison, Colin. “Edward Lear’s Landscapes at Knowsley.” Art, Animals and Politics: Knowslay and the Earls of Derby. Ed. Lloyd, Stephen. London: Unicorn Publishing Group, 2015. 173-91.

Pereira, Conceição. “Os limericks de Edward Lear: a idiotice ao serviço do nonsense.” Figuras do idiota, Literatura, Cinema e Banda Desenhada. Eds. Álvares, Cristina, Ana Lúcia Curado and Sérgio Guimarães de Sousa. Vila Nova de Famalicão: Húmus, 2015. 133-141. 

Granato, Fernanda Marques. O nonsense revisitado: a estética de ruptura de Edward Lear em diálogo com o contemporâneo de Renato Pompeu em Quatro-olhos. 2015. 110 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Literatura) – Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2015. 

GRANATO, Fernanda Marques; BASTAZIN, Vera Lucia. “Edward Lear e Renato Pompeu: possível diálogo para um nonsense reinventado.” Em Tese 21.1. 186-202. 

Bhattacharyya, Priyadarshini. “Tracing the ‘Sense’ behind ‘Nonsense’: A comparative study of selected texts of Sukumar Ray and Edward Lear.” International Journal of English Language, Literature and Humanities 2.10 (2015): 512-24.

Wong, Mou-Lan. “The Subline as the Beautiful: Dis-placements in Edward Lear’s Landscapes and Limericks.” Landscape, Seascape, and the Eco-Spatial Imagination. Eds. Estok, Simon C., Jonathan White and I-Chun Wang. London: Routledge, 2016.

Williams, James, and Matthew Bevis, eds. Edward Lear & the Play of Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Contains:

Williams, James, and Matthew Bevis. “Introduction: Edward Lear and the Play of Poetry.” Edward Lear & the Play of Poetry. Eds. Williams, James and Matthew Bevis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 1-15.

Williams, James. “Lear and the Fool.” Edward Lear & the Play of Poetry. Eds. Williams, James and Matthew Bevis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 16-50.

O’Neill, Michael. “One of the Dumms Edward Lear and Romanticism.” Edward Lear & the Play of Poetry. Eds. Williams, James and Matthew Bevis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 51-69.

Lodge, Sara. “Edward Lear and Dissent.” Edward Lear & the Play of Poetry. Eds. Williams, James and Matthew Bevis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 70-88.

Swaab, Peter. “Some Think Him… Queer: Loners and Love in Edward Lear.” Edward Lear & the Play of Poetry. Eds. Williams, James and Matthew Bevis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 89-114.

Robinson, Peter. “Edward Lear: Celebrity Chef.” Edward Lear & the Play of Poetry. Eds. Williams, James and Matthew Bevis. Oxford: Oxford university Press, 2016. 115-33.

Bevis, Matthew. “Falling for Edward Lear.” Edward Lear & the Play of Poetry. Eds. Williams, James and Matthew Bevis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Brown, Daniel. “Being and Naughtiness.” Edward Lear & the Play of Poetry. Eds. Williams, James and Matthew Bevis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 162-82.

Henchman, Anna. “Fragments Out of Place: Homology and the Logic of Nonsense in Edward Lear.” Edward Lear & the Play of Poetry. Eds. Williams, James and Matthew Bevis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 183-201.

Karlin, Daniel. “‘The Owl and the Pussy-Cat’, and other Poems of Love and Marriage.” Edward Lear & the Play of Poetry. Eds. Williams, James and Matthew Bevis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 202-22.

Haughton, Hugh. “Playing with Letters: Lears Episthilarity.” Edward Lear & the Play of Poetry. Eds. Williams, James and Matthew Bevis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 223-42.

Barton, Anna. “The Sense and Nonsense of Weariness: Edward Lear and Gertrude Stein read Tennyson.” Edward Lear & the Play of Poetry. Eds. Williams, James and Matthew Bevis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 243-59.

Stillman, Anne. “T.S. Eliot Plays Edward Lear.” Edward Lear & the Play of Poetry. Eds. Williams, James and Matthew Bevis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 260-80.

Piette, Adam. “‘Now Listen, Mr Leer!’: Joyces Lear.” Edward Lear & the Play of Poetry. Eds. Williams, James and Matthew Bevis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 281-99.

Perry, Seamus. “Auden’s Lear.” Edward Lear & the Play of Poetry. Eds. Williams, James and Matthew Bevis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 300-15.

May, Will. “Drawing Away from Lear: Stevie Smiths Deceitful Echo.” Edward Lear & the Play of Poetry. Eds. Williams, James and Matthew Bevis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 316-38.

Phillips, Adam. “Edward Lear’s Contribution to British Psychoanalysis.” Edward Lear & the Play of Poetry. Eds. Williams, James and Matthew Bevis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 339-46.

Ross, Philip. “Edward Lear, John Ashbery, and the Pleasant Surprise.” Edward Lear & the Play of Poetry. Eds. Williams, James and Matthew Bevis. Oxforiversity Press2016. 347-65.

Peck, Robert McCracken. The Natural History of Edward Lear. Boston: David R. Godine, 2016.

Boyce, Charlotte. “Onions and Honey, Roast Spiders and Chutney: Unusual Appetites and Disorderly Consumption in Edward Lear’s Nonsense Verse.” Food, Drink, and the Written Word in Britain, 1820–1945. Eds. Addyman, Mary, Laura Wood and Christopher Yiannitsaros. Abingdon: Routledge, 2017. 38-64. 

Uglow, Jenny. Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense. London: Faber and Faber, 2017.

Westwood, Benjamin. “Edward Lear’s Dancing Lines.” Essays in Criticism 67.4 (2017): 367-91.

Duckworth, Stephen, “Edward Lear’s Landscape Drawings: How Many Were There?” on this blog or in pdf.

Hassett, Constance W. “‘Does It Buzz?’: Image and Text in Edward Lear’s Limericks.” Victorian Literature and Culture 45 (2017): 685-707.

Lecercle, Jean-Jacques. “Bêtise du limerick.” Humoresques 42 (2015-2017): 63-74.

Pereira, Conceição. “Edward Lear ao voo do pássaro.” Forma de vida 12 (2018). 

Makins, Marian W. “Latin, Greek, and Other Classical ‘Nonsense’ in the Work of Edward Lear.” Classical Reception and Children’s Literature. Eds. Hodkinson, Owen and Helen Lovatt. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2018. 203-25. [Only a few pages online.]

Heyman, Michael. “‘That Terrible Bugaboo’: The Role of Music in Poetry for Children.” The Aesthetics of Children’s Poetry: A Study of Children’s Verse in English. Eds. Wakely-Mulroney, Katherine and Louise Joy. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2018. 162-81.

Caniglia, Maria Rossana, and Maria Concetta Fiorillo. “Disegno e narrazione in alcune vedute calabresi di Edward Lear.” ArcHistoR EXTRA 4 (2018): 43-65.

Williams, James. Edward Lear. Writers and their Work. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2018.

Camelia, Giovanni, Marco Graziosi, and Federico Guida. Edward Lear: Visioni inedite della Costa di Amalfi. Amalfi: Centro di Cultura e Storia Amalfitana, 2018.

Lodge, Sara. Inventing Edward Lear. Cambridge (Mass.) and London: Harvard University Press, 2018.

Dubois, Martin. “Edward Lear’s India and the Colonial Production of Nonsense.” Victorian Studies 61.1 (2018): 35-59.

Williams, James. “The Whole Situation.” Cambridge Quarterly 47.4 (2018): 387-394. (A review of Uglow’s Mr Lear).

Antinucci, Raffaella. “Parodic Brachyology and Semantic Density in Edward Lear’s ‘Volcanic’ Italian Limericks.” Conversations: La Revue des Etudes Bachyologiques 8 (2019): 235-44.

Rizal, Sarif Syamsu. “Actantial Models in the owl and the Pussy-cat (A Narrative Scheme on Poem).” LITE: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya 15.1 (2019): 17-30.

Tillinghast, Richard. “Edward Lear’s pilgrimage.” New Criterion 37.6 (2019): 63-66. (A review of Uglow’s Mr Lear).

Jagger, Jasmine. “Lear’s Tears.” Victorian Poetry 57.1 (2019): 101-29.

Graziosi, Marco. “Edward Lear: A Life in Pictures.” European Comic Art 12.2 (2019): 17-44.

Swaab, Peter. “Edward Lear’s Travels in Nonsense and Europe.” Victorian Comedy and Laughter: Conviviality, Jokes and Dissent. Ed. Lee, Louise. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 75-105.

Nagai, Kaori. “Animal Alphabets: Chesterton’s Dog, Browning’s Rats, Lear’s Blue Baboon.” Imperial Beast Fables: Animals, Cosmopolitanism, and the British Empire. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 155-87.

Uglow, Jenny. “The Quangle Wangle’s Hat: Edward Lear in the Villa Emily, San Remo.” Lives of Houses. Eds. Kennedy, Kate and Hermione Lee. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2020. 95-108.

Jagger, Jasmine, and Benjamin Westwood. “Introduction: New Work on Edward Lear.” Victorian Poetry 58.2 (2020): 107-19.

Lodge, Sara. “‘One of the Dumms’: Lear, Deafness, and the Wound of Sound.” Victorian Poetry 58.2 (2020): 121-33.

Haughton-Shawm, Eliza. “‘Antic Dispositions’: Lear and Dickens.” Victorian Poetry 58.2 (2020): 135-49.

Williams, James. “The Old Person of Chroma.” Victorian Poetry 58.2 (2020): 151-67.

Alonso, Alex. “‘Provocative propinquity’: Paul Muldoon and Edward Lear.” Victorian Poetry 58.2 (2020): 169-85.

Bevis, Matthew. “Edward Lear’s Happiness.” Victorian Poetry 58.2 (2020): 187-205.

Masud, Noreen. “Lear’s Leftovers.” Victorian Poetry 58.2 (2020): 207-20.

Uglow, Jenny. “Afterword: Lear Outside Time.” Victorian Poetry 58.2 (2020): 221-33.

Colley, Ann C. “Animals and Nonsense: Edward Lear’s Menagerie.” The Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature. Eds. McHugh, Susan, Robert McKay and John Miller. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 333-46.

Swaab, Peter. “Edward Lear’s New Words.” Words, Books, Images, and the Long Eighteenth Century: Essays for Allen Reddick. Eds. Bevan Zlatar, Antoinina, et al. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021. 81-99.

Gaetano, Raffaele. Per la Calabria selvaggia: 109 disegni inediti di Edward Lear. Reggio Calabria: iiriti editore, 2021.

Randazzo, Giuliana. Il “Sicilian giro” di Edward Lear: Itinerari e visioni inedite. Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2021.

Gaetano, Raffaele. Edward Lear: Cronache di un viaggio a piedi nella Calabria del 1847. Reggio Calabria: Laruffa, 2022

Masud, Noreen. “Edward Lear: Sudden and Surprising.” Modern Philology 119.3 (2022): 421-41.

D’Alfonso, Francesca. “Edward Lear, the Illustrated Excursions in Italy and the Making of a Tourist Imaginary.” Forum Italicum 56.3 (2022): 1-9.

Weaver, Sarah. “The ‘diaphanous veil of Edward Lear’s Tennyson Songs.” Victorian Poetry 60.2 (2022): 239-62.

Graziosi, Marco. “Prima di Gregorovius: Edward Lear, i Caetani e Ninfa.” Ninfa: Percezioni nella scienza, letteratura e belle arti nel XIX e all’inizio del XX secolo. Ed. Michael Mateus. Regensburg: Schnell + Steiner, 2022. 164-192.

Mackenzie, Hazel. “‘A consciousness of unknown things – of reason overthrown’: Epilepsy and the Unreasoning Body in Edward Lear’s Nonsense Poetry.” Disability Studies Quarterly 42.3-4 (2023).

Dilworth, Thomas. “Named Places in Lear’s Limericks.” Victorian Poetry 61.1 (2023): 1-31.

Dilworth, Thomas, and Michael Crawford. “Evolution, Two Darwins, and the Gestalt Imagining of Edward Lear.” Vicrtorian Studies 65.2 (2023): 274-300.