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On Lear and Nonsense
- A Very Good Children’s Book (1865)
- Nonsense Verse, &c. (1880)
- Word-Twisting Versus Nonsense (1887)
- Concerning Nonsense (1889)
- Delightful Nonsense (1890)
- G.K. Chesterton, A Defence of Nonsense (1902)
- The Poems in Alice in Wonderland (1903)
- Limericks (1903)
- Ian Malcolm on Edward Lear (1908)
- G.K. Chesterton, Two Kinds of Paradox (1911)
- H. Jackson, Masters of Nonsense (1912)
- H. Hawthorne, Edward Lear (1916)
- How Pleasant to Know Mr Lear (1932)
- G.K. Chesterton, Both Sides of the Looking-Glass (1933)
- G.K. Chesterton, Humour (1938)
- G. Orwell, Nonsense Poetry (1945)
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Tag Archives: Punch
Vers nonsensiques (8)
George Du Maurier, in Punch, 19 May 1877, p. 218.
Vers nonsensiques (7)
George Du Maurier, in Punch, 12 May 1877, p. 215.
Vers nonsensiques (6)
George Du Maurier, in Punch, 5 May 1877, p. 202.
Vers nonsensiques (5)
George Du Maurier, in Punch, 28 April 1877, p. 191.
Vers nonsensiques (4)
George Du Maurier, in Punch, 31 March 1877, p. 142.
Vers nonsensiques (3)
George Du Maurier, in Punch, 24 March 1877, p. 130.
Vers nonsensiques (2)
George Du Maurier, in Punch, 17 March 1877, p. 110.
Vers nonsensiques (1)
I have already discussed a “comic strip” by George Du Maurier, The Egg Poacher: A Tale of Country Life, which appeared in Punch in 1869. A few years later Du Maurier was to prove his literary talent by producing a … Continue reading
Awful Protection against Midges
John Everett Millais, Awful Protection against Midges, 1853. Pen and sepia ink on paper. Signed with monogram, inscribed and dated 1853. This drawing comes from a series of about twenty-five amusing records that Millais made as a visual diary of … Continue reading
The Frog and the Duck: A Romance
George du Maurier “took, in 1869-1870, a brief Darwinian respite from his usual labors of satirizing the Victorian drawing room” and, among other things, produced an “unusually extensive and charmingly anthropomorphic picture-story” (Kunzle 293), which appeared in three fortnightly instalments … Continue reading
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