A Blog of Bosh

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 [...]

Over at 5lines (A limerick a day!) I am publishing a series by Oliver Herford which appeared in the Century Magazine between 1911 and 1913.
Here is another humorous poem which appeared in the same magazine in the June 1930 issue (vol. Vol. LXXXVI, pp. 320-1).

Text and pictures by OLIVER HERFORD
A SCULPTOR once, in search of [...]

Here is a typical Edward Lear caricature self-portrait I saved from an eBay auction a few months ago (starting price was GBP750.00 with an estimate of 1,500-2,000):

The speech bubble contains a message to Evelyn Baring, first Earl of Cromer (1841-1917): “9 A.M. will do beautifully but I would have made 6-7-or 8 do if H.E [...]

Lesley of Birds Ahoy! has found these delicious biscuits:

The illustration of the package is also very beautiful:

The producer has a website, but at the moment no information is available.

Chris Gosling has kindly sent me a copy of G.K. Chesterton’s 1911 article “Two Kinds of Paradox,” first published in the Illustrated London News. See previous post on Chesterton.

A post at the Blog of the American Chesterton Association about G.K. Chesterton’s frequent references to Edward Lear gives me an opportunity to mention that three nonsense related articles of his are on the Bookshelf of nonsenselit.org:

A Defence of Nonsense (1901)
Both Sides of the Looking-Glass (1933)
Humour (1938)

Another essay which promises to be very interesting is [...]

Michael Heyman, whose not-to-be-missed thesis on Edward Lear, Isles of Boshen, has been online for some time, has an article on Anushka Ravishankar’s Indian Nonsense in the November issue of The Horn Book, a publication about books for children and young adults.
Michael has just finished working on The Tenth Rasa: An Anthology of Indian Nonsense, [...]

Ever since I heard of Google Earth I realised it would be very useful for limerick lovers, but I was too lazy to try and find out how to create interactive maps until I found this post at the Stoa Consortium blog; so here come kmz files for each of the four limerick books published [...]

I’ve started changing the page layout again, so some parts of the site might not work correctly for some time. Be patient.

The Peter Newell section of nonsenselit.org now has a full-size, perfect copy of Peter Newell’s Jungle-Jangle.

Thanks to Bob & Ellen Watters, who kindly contacted me and scanned the book.