Tag Archives: Lewis Carroll

The Evolution of the Book of Nonsense

Posted on December 16, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

My essay on the early editions of Edward Lear’s Book of Nonsense has now been published and is available on Project Muse: Graziosi, Marco. “The Evolution of Edward Lear’s A Book of Nonsense: The Making of the 1846, 1855, and … Continue reading →

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A Hierarchy of Nonsense, By John Kropf

Posted on May 8, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

[I receive from John Kropf, and publish.] For a couple of semesters in college I worked at the on-campus student coffee house, The Bandersnatch, named after the creature in Lewis Carroll’s famous nonsensical poem, Jabberwocky. When you work inside a … Continue reading →

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The Edinburgh Companion to Nonsense Literature

Posted on January 23, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

Barton, Anna, and James Williams, eds. The Edinburgh Companion to Nonsense. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. Introduction: Companionable Nonsense – Anna Barton and James Williams Part I: Notes towards a History of English Nonsense 1. Buba, Blictrix, Bufbaf: Medieval Theory … Continue reading →

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O frabjous day!

Posted on September 27, 2020 by Marco Graziosi

TED Ed has released a fun animated retelling of Lewis Carroll’s epic nonsense poem, Jabberwocky from his classic novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Poem by Lewis Carroll, directed by Sjaak Rood. Dive into Lewis Carroll’s epic … Continue reading →

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Four Reviews of Children’s Books (1872)

Posted on November 24, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Sing-Song: a Nursery-rhyme Book. By Christina G. Rossetti. With 120 Illustrations by Arthur Hughes. Routledge. The Princess and the Goblin. By George Macdonald. Strahan. Through the Looking-glass, and what Alice saw there. By the Author of Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland. … Continue reading →

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Easter Reading Suggestions

Posted on April 14, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Several articles on Edward Lear and Nonsense literature from Conceição Pereira: 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 – … Continue reading →

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John Lennon, Edward Lear, and Nonsense

Posted on May 25, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

An English exercise book from his junior year at Quarry Bank—neatly covered in brown paper and titled MY ANTHOLOGY—demonstrates what pains he [John Lennon] would take if his enthusiasm were aroused. Quotations from classic poems like Longfellow’s Song of Hiawatha … Continue reading →

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The Wisdom of Nonsense

Posted on May 23, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

WELL-TIMED nonsense is the divinest sense. In the current number of the Cornhill Magazine Canon Selwyn publishes some of the later letters of Edward Lear, and suggests that as the realm of sense is infinite, and as the realm of nonsense … Continue reading →

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Katharine West, Nonsense and Wit (1946)

Posted on May 2, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

SHOULD the British Council or arty other body concerned with the “projection of Britain” endeavour to make known abroad the unique British heritage of nonsense? Every country has its nursery rhymes and fairy tales; but, as M. Emile Cammaerts writes … Continue reading →

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Nonsense Programmes

Posted on December 25, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

As usual for the Christmas period, the BBC has a few Nonsense-related programmes you can listen to while still available on iPlayer Radio: Drama of the Week, which you can download as a podcast, is Jeremy Iron’s reading of T.S. … Continue reading →

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