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- A Very Good Children’s Book (1865)
- Nonsense Verse, &c. (1880)
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- How Pleasant to Know Mr Lear (1932)
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Tag Archives: nonsense rhymes
Three Edward Lear Limericks Set to Music by John Muehleisen
John Muehleisen, Three Limericks TTBB (div); a cappella; English (Edward Lear) 11′ 49″. Requires a highly skilled men’s ensemble with a broad vocal range (meaningful low D to treble clef C), and bold abandon in improvised vocal sounds (animal noises). … Continue reading
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There was an Old Man whose repose…
There was an old man whose repose Consisted in warming his toes — When they said — “Are they done?” — He answered “What fun! — Do you think I am cooking my toes?” — From the Huntington digital collection.
Two Important Catalogues
Karen Taylor has always had Edward Lear paintings and drawings in her catalogue and has now published one entirely devoted to him: Poetical Topography: Travels with Edward Lear, which covers his whole career. It includes the full text of “Lays … Continue reading
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Matchbox-Styled Book: The Limericks
A few weeks ago, kind Dough Harris sent me an extract from a book he recently acquired. Here is how he describes it: An interesting matchbox-styled booklet dropped through my letterbox today. Supposedly part of the ‘Safety [or Safest – … Continue reading
An Unpublished Limerick (4)
The last of the manuscript limericks does not have a picture. Written in pencil, and in a different hand. There was a young Lady of Tweedle Who in Church sat down on a needle With the calmest of smiles She … Continue reading
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An Unpublished Limerick (3)
The second of the three limericks at the end of the new-found proof copy of Edward Lear’s A Book of Nonsense, second edition. There was a young Person of Ghent Who went out to slide on the Trent The Ice … Continue reading
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An Unpublished Limerick (2)
The first of the three limericks at the end of the new-found proof copy of Edward Lear’s A Book of Nonsense, second edition. Again, the picture looks Learesque to me, but the handwriting does not. There was a young Lady of … Continue reading
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An Unpublished Limerick (1)
Description of the new-found copy of Edward Lear’s Book of Nonsense, 1855; private collection: [Edward Lear] A Book of Nonsense. Proof copy for the second 1855 edition. Gray 19th-century [original?] cover, no title page, no publishing information. All 73 lithographed … Continue reading
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The Second Edition of Edward Lear’s Book of Nonsense
Very little is known about the production of the second, one-volume edition of Edward Lear’s A Book of Nonsense: according to Vivien Noakes, it was probably produced in late 1854 and published in 1855 (though other sources date it to … Continue reading
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A Touching Appeal: A Parody of “The Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò”
Punch, Vol. 107 (17 November 1894), pp. 234-235. From Amy Matthewson’s Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era. London and new York: Routledge, 2022, pp. 114-116. John Tenniel’s “A Touching Appeal” depicts an overgrown childlike Chinese man named Younghy-Bung-Boo-Hoo … Continue reading
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