A Blog of Bosh

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.]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.__ U B U W E B__ : __ P A P E R S __