Tag Archives: Limerick

More Wheelbarrows!

Posted on September 28, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

There was a young woman of Harrow Who always rode in a wheelbarrow Her weight was so great She came out of it straight That jolly young woman of Harrow. See here, here, and here. This one is from: The … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Quakers, and the Old Man of Jamaica

Posted on July 9, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Karen Sands-O’Connor. Children’s Publishing and Black Britain, 1965-2015. New York: Springer, 2017, p. 11: As I have suggested elsewhere (Sands-O’Connor, 2008:38-39), Edward Lear, in 1846, included a Jamaican in his Book of Nonsnse (Jamaica being handily rhymed with Quaker); his … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear in Spanish

Posted on June 21, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

A new translation of Edward Lear’s limericks, by Herrín Hidalgo, has just been published in Spain by Media Vaca: You can see some of the colorful pages here, read a short biography of Lear, and a special preface for children … Continue reading →

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A Limerick by Toti Scialoja

Posted on December 1, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

From C’è qualcuno che sa leggere? the new children’s literature supplement of the Sole 24 Ore of 20 November 2016. More on Toti Scialoja.

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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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After Edward Lear

Posted on September 6, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

Group of three drawings with limericks, c1880. All in pen and ink, annotated either “5”, “10” or “11” in pencil in upper right corner, 18.7 x 26.7cm (paper). Stains, foxing and soiling overall, tears to edges, portions of paper corroded … 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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A Few Links

Posted on May 1, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

I have been checking and fixing a few links in the bibliography pages and added a new, interesting article to the Studies on Edward Lear page: Antinucci, Raffaella. “‘Sensational Nonsense.’ Edward Lear and the (Im)purity of Nonsense Writing.” English Literature … Continue reading →

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The Archbishop of Dublin (NOT a Lear Limerick)

Posted on February 12, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

There was an Archbishop of Dublin Whom corns were incessantly troubling Till one night he arose And stuck pins in his toes Which assuaged that Archbishop of Dublin. This was listed on at a Sotheby’s auction as one in a … Continue reading →

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There Was an Old Man of Cape Horn…

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

A variant version of both illustration and verse for ‘There was an Old Man of Cape Horn’. As first published in the 1846 edition of A Book of Nonsense, the limerick concludes “So he sat on a chair, till he … Continue reading →

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