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At Staten Island Academy, a reason for every rhyme
Seventy students took their turn in the spotlight yesterday at Staten Island Academy’s annual poetry recital, sharing the rhymes of their favorite poets…First-place eighth-grade winners were Carey Shuffman, reciting “Host House” by Robert Frost, and Joseph Konigsbert reciting “The Owl and the Pussy-Cat” by Edward Lear.silive | [...]

Music by women, but not for women only
In addition, the concert will include the works of Margaret Ruthven Lang whose life spanned the years 1867-1972. ‘Her “Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures” are short and easy, a perfect complement to the more complex work of Marion Bauer, who was composing around the same time, Held said, adding, [...]

Start with rhymes
By DAphne LeeAside from being easy on the ear, rhyming stories are also easy on the tongue although anyone who has grappled with Dr Seuss or Edward Lear’s deliciously madcap nonsense may beg to differ. My husband and I are forever arguing about the correct pronunciation of Lear’s Quangle Wangle Quee, but, as [...]

Neil Ardley
Neil Ardley, who died on February 23 aged 66, achieved distinction in two entirely separate professions, as a jazz composer and an author of informative books for young people; in the former role he wrote and recorded such acclaimed albums as Le Dejeuner Sur l’Herbe and Kaleidoscope Of Rainbows, while in the latter his [...]

A review of Tate Britain’s Pre-Raphaelite Vision: Truth to Nature, until 3 May, by Rachel Campbell-Johnston.

Wisdom of David Brent ‘more memorable than Shakespeare’Shakespeare’s most famous quotations are less well known than the cringeworthy sayings of David Brent, the fictional middle-manager from The Office, a survey claimed yesterday…Classic literature proved more recognisable than contemporary in only one instance. Thirty-two per cent of people knew that the owl and the pussy cat [...]

Pre-Raphaelite Vision: Truth to NaturePre-Raphaelite Vision is the first exhibition to focus solely on the deep fascination the Pre-Raphaelites had for the natural world and enables visitors to explore a whole new dimension of their work. The exhibition brings together around 150 works including celebrated paintings such as William Holman Hunt�s Our English Coasts (Strayed [...]

It’s hard to share the tastes of a collector Travels with Edward Lear - National Gallery of Scotland
AS the author of such quaintly endearing Victorian-era “nonsense” as The Owl and the Pussycat and other such silly-but-enduring rhymes, you would expect a collection of artwork by Edward Lear to reflect a particularly skewed interpretation of [...]

Exhibition shows more watercolourful side to Edward LearEDWARD Lear is best known as the writer of much loved nonsense verses such as The Owl and the Pussycat, but a new Edinburgh exhibition at the National Gallery of Scotland aims to showcase his legacy as an inspired Victorian artist.Travels with Edward Lear: Watercolours from the Runciman [...]

Dr. Seuss: Way past silliness
Though he died in 1991, Seuss seems more popular than ever. ‘The Cat in the Hat’ is now a movie. Thanks to the publicity from the film, the book has returned to the New York Times best-seller picture book list.The U.S. Postal Service is canceling stamps with Cat in the Hat [...]