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Saturday, December 29, 2001
La campagna romana da Hackert a Balla
[Announcement of an Italian exhibition of paintings of the Roman campagna; no mention of Lear, though he was active in the same years.]
posted by Marco Graziosi Saturday, December 29, 2001
Saturday, December 15, 2001
Rhyme and reason
If it is the ludicrous that you want, invest in Edward Lear’s The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense (edited by Vivien Noakes, Penguin). “Nonsense is the breath of my nostrils” Lear wrote. He saw it as the only feasible response to “this ludicrously whirligig life which one suffers from first & laughs at afterwards”.
The Times
posted by Marco Graziosi Saturday, December 15, 2001
Wednesday, December 05, 2001
The Phonosemantics of Nasal-Stop Clusters by Ralph Emerson
The humorousness of nasal-stops also makes them one of the secrets of nonsense poets. Dr. Seuss's books have dozens of nasal-stop coinages, from the Grinch to the Rink-Rinker-Fink. The flora and fauna in Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" include a "Tumtum tree" and a "frumious Bandersnatch." Edward Lear's little Jumblies set sail for "the hills of the Chankly Bore" with "forty bottles of ring-bo-ree." And Spike Milligan writes of a very "noisy place to belong" called the "Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!"
[This article about the symbolism of nasal-stop clusters (the sounds MB, MP; ND, NT; NG, NK) also mentions The Jumblies, but — while doing much of 'ding's and 'dong's — incredibly does not refer to The Dong With a Luminous Nose!]
Iconicity in Language (9/9/2001)
posted by Marco Graziosi Wednesday, December 05, 2001
Sunday, December 02, 2001
Dick Higgins, A TAXONOMY OF SOUND POETRY
[From one of the best sites I know, an essay on 'sound poetry' which mentions Lear — and Nonsense poetry in general — as a predecessor.
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posted by Marco Graziosi Sunday, December 02, 2001
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