Tag Archives: Edward Lear

Nicholas Parsons on Edward Lear in Corfu

Posted on September 15, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

The Reading Society of Corfu will be hosting an event, “An Evening with Edward Lear,” with Nicholas Parsons on 9 October next, at 7.30 pm:

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Edward Lear, A Mountain Valley

Posted on August 31, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, A Mountain Valley. Inscribed with various artist’s notes. Pencil and ink, unframed . 33.6 x 53.9cm (13 1/4 x 21 1/4in). Bonhams.

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Not strange so blithesome I appear! I was brought up on Edward Lear

Posted on August 27, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

The following was published in William B. Osgood Field’s Edward Lear on My Shelves (p. 158). Osgood Field found it in a copy of Edward Lear’s 1871 Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets: A fly-leaf obviously from another copy, with yellow recto … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear and Edward Gibbon

Posted on August 26, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

On 2 January 1882 Edward Lear wrote in his diary that he “took a Gibbon’s Rise & Fall up to Mrs. Welfords” and then at the bottom of the page added a limerick obviously inspired by this event: the poem … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear and his Garden

Posted on August 24, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

The last page of a letter from San Remo, by Edward Lear; from the George Gery Milner-Gibson-Cullum autograph collection at Trinity College Library, Cambridge.

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More Summer Reading

Posted on August 16, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

It seems I missed several more articles on Edward Lear: 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, … Continue reading →

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Peter Newell and Edward Lear

Posted on August 11, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Equally individual [as Stockton’s article on A.B. Frost mentioned in the previous review] is Mr. Peter Newell, who has just published a collection of his quaintly illustrated nonsense verses, under the title of Peter Newell’s Pictures and Rhymes. The world … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear’s Picture Letters

Posted on June 20, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Haughton, Hugh. “Just Letters: Corresponding Poets.” In Letter Writing Among Poets: From William Wordsworth to Elizabeth Bishop. Ed. Jonathan Ellis. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. 57-80. [Google Books]: Thinking of ‘snail mail’ brings to mind two pictorial letters from the … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear’s Representation of the Meteora Monasteries

Posted on June 18, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Della Dora, Veronica. “Ways of Seeing: The Making of a Holy Landscape of Rocks.” In Avril Maddrell, Veronica della Dora, Alessandro Scafi, Heather Walton. Christian Pilgrimage, Landscape and Heritage: Journeying to the Sacred. New York: Routledge, 2014. 45-66. [Google Books] pp. … Continue reading →

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Two Edward Lear Parrakeets

Posted on June 13, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Brown’s Parrakeet (c. 1831). Watercolour and pencil on paper. 40 x 29 cm. Plate 20 of Lear’s Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae. Edward Lear, New Holland Parrakeet (c. 1831). Watercolour and pencil on paper. 45.3 x 29 cm. … Continue reading →

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