Tag Archives: nonsense rhymes

La taupe suspendue

Posted on March 21, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

Félix Bracquemond (Paris 1833–1914 Sèvres), Les Taupes, 1854. Etching; sixth state of seven. Sheet: 19 1/8 × 12 1/16 in. (48.6 × 30.7 cm) Plate: 10 5/8 × 7 5/8 in. (27 × 19.4 cm). Inscribed in plate, lower right: … 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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Legend of the Large Mouth

Posted on October 4, 2021 by Marco Graziosi

Food is one of the recurrent themes of Victorian Nonsense and Edward Lear certainly used it quite a lot; some of his limericks present gluttony as rather scary, for instance ther “Old Man of Calcutta”: The “Old man of the … Continue reading →

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Peter Newell, Not He

Posted on July 29, 2021 by Marco Graziosi

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Peter Newell, Dolly Dot’s Visitor

Posted on July 25, 2021 by Marco Graziosi

The Delineator, February 1918, p. 33.

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Variant Versions of Edward Lear’s Limericks

Posted on July 1, 2021 by Marco Graziosi

‘There was an old person of Skye,/ Who was nearly a hundred feet high;/ He seemed to the people/ As tall as a steeple,/ And served as a lighthouse on Skye.’ (upper left) pen and brown ink, partial watermark ’18…’ … Continue reading →

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Lydia Karpinska, The owl and the Pussy-cat Dancing

Posted on June 30, 2021 by Marco Graziosi

Lydia Karpinska, The Owl and the Pussy-cat. Capturing joy and movement from every angle, this charming intrepretation entitled They danced by the light of the moon, is of course the unmistakable owl and pussy cat of Edward Lear. This piece … Continue reading →

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New Publications on Edward Lear (and more)

Posted on March 19, 2021 by Marco Graziosi

It’s been a long time since I updated the bibliographies, so here are quite a lot of items. Essays on Edward Lear: Walchester, Kathryn. “Non vedete. È una rivoluzione: Edward Lear Landscape Painter and Italy.” Journal of Tourism Consumption and … Continue reading →

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An Edward Lear Alphabet, a Story and a Letter in Italian

Posted on December 24, 2020 by Marco Graziosi

The British Library website has published the manuscript of Edward Lear’s History of the Seven Families of Lake Pipple-Popple, which also contains a full Nonsense alphabet and another version of “High diddle diddle.” Add MS 47462: ‘Written & illustrated for Lady … 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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