Tag Archives: Edward Lear

Edward Lear & the Play of Poetry

Posted on October 2, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

At long last it’s out! Williams, James, and Matthew Bevis, eds. Edward Lear & the Play of Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Here is the table of contents: James Williams and Matthew Bevis,Introduction: Edward Lear and the Play of … Continue reading →

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Dear Edward Lear I Love Your Birds

Posted on September 29, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

Dear Edward Lear I Love Your Birds by Jeredith Merrin The Red and Yellow Macaw resplendent, And clearly your puff-chested model, Arching head over the arc of half-extended Red yellow blue wing, intended us to look. My first was in … Continue reading →

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Jennie Feldman, The Grey Bird

Posted on September 24, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

No bright rhyme for this backward glare, the oboe-squawk half throttled with hindsight’s effort. Barely, acrobatically, hanging on. Is it in the way fear squiggles a frown and overdoes the eye’s black brow that we glimpse relief? Gravity resisted against … Continue reading →

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Jennie Feldman, The Black and White Bird

Posted on September 22, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

Lifted birdily out of the sober quirks of sadness, not to be weighed down. Forget the palette, the easel-hours stuck sitting like a petrified gorilla— here’s quick strokes, dark washes. Poised ambiguities: landing / taking off? One bright eye unfailing dares … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear’s Indian Trees

Posted on September 15, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

For sale from Donald A. Heald. Indian Trees, Palms and Bamboos [cover title of an album of 19 original watercolours mostly of Indian landscape by Edward Lear] San Remo, Italy: 1878-1882. Folio. (19 x 12 inches). 19 original watercolour drawings … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear at 73½

Posted on September 13, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear. aet. 72.½ His cat Foss, aet 16.

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There was an Old Man with a Book

Posted on September 11, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

There was an old man with a Book — Who said, “Only look! Only look! — “Obsquation, — obsgration, — “At Waterloo station — Enquire if there ain’t such a book!” Limerick on the publication of Edward Lear’s Views in … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear in 1884

Posted on September 10, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

Exact likeness of me and my cat Foss, 23 February, 1884. Private Collection, The Walthall Family. The Guardian (2012).

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Edward Lear: Letter to Lord Lindsay

Posted on September 9, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

3 November. My dear Lord Lindsay, I have but a very few moments to thank you for a most kind letter & for the Cheque for 5£ it Contains. I shall like to hear that you & Lady Lindsay are … Continue reading →

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Wild Lives

Posted on September 7, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

This program is sponsored by the Cotsen Children’s Library, the Graphic Arts Collection, and the Friends of the Princeton University Library. No reservations are necessary but for more information, contact Ian Dooley at 609-258-1148 or idooley@princeton.edu Princeton University’s Graphic Arts … Continue reading →

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