Tag Archives: Limerick

Carolyn Wells, The Pround Eel

Posted on February 12, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Carolyn Wells, “The Proud Eel.” Illustrated by J.M. Condé. The Metropolitan Magazine, vol. XXII no. 4, July 1905, p. 512.

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Carolyn Wells, The Scientific Goose

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Carolyn Wells, “The Scientific Goose.” Illustrated by J.M. Condé. The Metropolitan Magazine, vol. XXII no. 3, June 1905, p. 3377.

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WS Gilbert’s Nonsense Poems

Posted on July 18, 2014 by Marco Graziosi

W.S. Gilbert never really wrote Nonsense; his Bab Ballads and other collections, while obviously influenced by Edward Lear ― especially in the strongly caricatural style of the pictures accompanying his poems in the early editions – are rather in the … Continue reading →

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The Gook

Posted on July 17, 2014 by Marco Graziosi

Gustave Verbeek‘s Loony Lyrics of Lulu, 17 July – 23 October 1910, presented an adventure of Lulu and her “papa” with a fantastic animal described in the last panel in a limerick composed by Lulu, a real tour de force, as … Continue reading →

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JP Benson’s Woozlebeasts

Posted on July 15, 2014 by Marco Graziosi

A rare example of a coloured Woozlebeasts strip by John Prentiss Benson (11 September 1904). On nonsenselit.org you will find the full run of the newspaper strips, in black and white, as well as the 1905 book published by Moffat, … Continue reading →

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Limericks!

Posted on June 18, 2014 by Marco Graziosi

A quick note on a few studies on the limerick I have read or re-read recently. Scheepers, Christoph, et al. “Listening to Limericks: A Pupillometry Investigation of Perceivers’ Expectancy.” PLoS ONE 8.9 (2013): e74986. The abstract appears to confirm what … Continue reading →

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Tolkien’s Nevbosh Limerick

Posted on June 17, 2014 by Marco Graziosi

From Joan Acocella’s “Slaying Monsters,” in The New Yorker for 2 June 2014, a review of the recently published translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien: Tolkien was a serious philologist from the time he was a child. He and his cousin Mary … Continue reading →

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Mid-Victorian Memories of Edward Lear

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Marco Graziosi

Robert Edward Francillon (1841-1919), barrister, novelist and journalist, editor of The Tatler circa 1877 (works at Archive.org); from Mid-Victorian Memories. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914. 30-35: My second author [the first being Thomas Talfourd] was of a very different order. I … Continue reading →

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Bonnets

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Marco Graziosi

George Cruikshank, Undeviating Rectitude, 1819. British Museum images.

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Desperate Remedies: A Punch Limerick

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Marco Graziosi
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