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

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”:

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. 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 [...]

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.

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Lord Purrpurr of the Fuzzberrys gives his rendition of Edward Lear’s “Owl and the Pussycat:”

Over at the Language Log Bill Poser has a post, prompted by the recent Supreme Court decision on “Bong hits 4 Jesus,” on the different meanings of “bong”.
In a previous post I connected the “bong tree” to the Buddha’s “bo tree,” or Indian fig tree. The etymology provided for “bong” as a smoking implement in [...]

Edward Lear’s most famous poem is performed by the “amazing” Kazzy, with limited animation:
The Owl and the PussycatCaricato da norrisnuvo

From an e-mail from Shipra Ogra, Administrator of the London Bubble Theatre Company:
London Bubble Theatre company is showing Edward Lear’s “The Dong with a Luminous Nose” as part of theatre in the parks we do every summer. We will take Edward Lear’s much-loved nonsense poem and inject a touch of reality to create an open-air [...]

Some time ago I placed William Foster’s illustrations from Nonsense Drolleries. The Owl & the Pussy-cat. The Duck & the Kangaroo. London: Frederick Warne, 1889 in the nonsenselit.org’s picture gallery: their most striking feature, in my opinion, is the fact that the illustrator is unique in choosing to represent the Owl as the bride and [...]