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The Illustrated Old Possum

Posted by Marco on September 27th, 2007

Michael Sporn, of Splog, has a number of posts about illustrator Errol Le Cain, and among them two devoted to his illustrations to poems from T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats:
Growltiger’s Last Stand and Other Poems

Mr. Mistoffelees with Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer

The posts also mention a projected, but never realized, animated version of [...]

The 1888 Roberts Bros Edition

Posted by Marco on September 25th, 2007

On Edward Lear’s Nonsense Books, published by the Robert Bros, in “The Literary World.” October 13, 1888:

The Gashlycrumb Tinies

Posted by Marco on September 24th, 2007

On YouTube, a nice animation based on Edward Gorey’s The Gashlycrumb Tinies, by Matt Duplessie of Clandestiny:

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat: A New Arrangement

Posted by Marco on September 21st, 2007

Sumanguru Gyra Jones, from Somewhere West of the Everglades, proposes his own arrangement of Edward Lear’s poem:

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He also has an arrangement of Lewis Carroll’s “The Jabberwocky”:

Something about Edward Lear

Posted by Marco on September 19th, 2007

From The Young and Field Literary Readers. Book Three. By Ella Flagg Young and Walter Taylor Field. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1914; available through Google Books:

The Brothers Dalziel on Edward Lear

Posted by Marco on September 15th, 2007

The Brothers Dalziel. A Record of Fifty Years’ Work in Conjunction with Many of the Most Distinguished Artists of the Period – 1840-1890. London: Methuen & Co., 1901, pp. 317-8.
Early in the Sixties we made the acquaintance of Edward Lear, who was a landscape painter of [...]

Tomfoolery

Posted by Marco on September 5th, 2007

At long last I have managed to see an episode of Tomfoolery, the 1970-1971 Rankin-Bass show based upon the nonsensical verse and whimsical characters of authors such as Edward Lear, Ogden Nash, Frank Gelett Burgess, and Lewis Carroll.

Thanks to tooktracker for uploading this; also visit the YouTube page for comments.