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Edward Lear: Moment to Moment review in the Burlington Magazine

Posted on January 15, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

The Burlington Magazine, volume 164, number 1436, November 2022, pp. 1130-1132 contains a review of the Ikon exhibition by Richard Green I think I messid before. Unfortunately it is not one of the free ones.

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Inventing Edward Lear

Posted on February 25, 2019 by Marco Graziosi

It is not easy to review Sara Lodge’s Inventing Edward Lear (amazon.co.uk, amazon.com); it presents such a wealth of details that it is impossible to do it justice. In this scholarly study, Lodge proposes interpretations of almost all Lear’s classic … Continue reading →

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James Williams’s Edward Lear (A Review)

Posted on December 12, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

Some things never change, the world is declining, and only a very few things seem to be getting better with the passing of time. This is certainly the case with the “Writers and their Work” series: when James Williams told … Continue reading →

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Readings and Listenings

Posted on September 26, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

I missed this review of Jenny Uglow’s Mr Lear, you can read it here. Listen to three Edward Lear arrangements, in Hungarian Translatio, by György Kósa: The music comes from Kósa György: Home Concert – Songs and Chamber Works; Bokor Jutta, Judit … Continue reading →

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A Call for Papers

Posted on June 8, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

Jasmine Jagger,co-editor with Matthew Bevis of the Knowing Edward Lear Project, and curator of the Learical Tennyson online exhibition, informs me that there will be a special issue of Victorian Poetry devoted to Edward Lear in 2020. Here is the … Continue reading →

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Two More Worth Reading on Edward Lear

Posted on April 17, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

A few weeks ago, Cabinet: A Quarterly of Art and Culture published a long article by D. Graham Burnett on Edward Lear’s “The Dong with a Luminous Nose” in its “The Nose” Issue 64, pp. 84-91: “The Luminosity of the … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear’s Feelings

Posted on April 9, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

Oxford University has published a series of five short videos on Edward Lear creted by Matthew Bevis and Jasmine Jagger, the general title is Edward Lear’s Feelings, and after an Introduction, the four remeining chapters are devoted to Wonder, Disgust, … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear’s Diaries & More Reading Material

Posted on January 16, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

The Houghton Library blog has posted the second part of Matt Bevis’s series on Edward Lear devoted to the importance of the diaries which, as I’m sure most of you know, are available online as images and partial transcripts. It seems … Continue reading →

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A Little More to Read on Edward Lear

Posted on December 10, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Cara Giaimo on Edward Lear as “a Teenage Parrot-Painting Prodigy” from Atlas Obscura. And Matthew Bevis’s long review of Jenny Uglow’s Mr Lear for the London Review of Books, vol. 39, no. 24 (only available to subscribers, unfortunately). I have also found out that many … Continue reading →

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Peter Newell and Edward Lear

Posted on August 11, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Equally individual [as Stockton’s article on A.B. Frost mentioned in the previous review] is Mr. Peter Newell, who has just published a collection of his quaintly illustrated nonsense verses, under the title of Peter Newell’s Pictures and Rhymes. The world … Continue reading →

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