Saturday, January 13, 2001
Observer review: Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams by Mark Ford
By 30, feeling he had achieved the required 'sensations of art', he embarked on the novel Impressions d'Afrique. This reveals an extraordinary world which he elaborated for the rest of his life, suspended, as Cocteau said, 'from elegance, fairyland and fear' and full of inventors, virtuosi and miraculous inventions. A worm, for instance, in a trough full of a strange water as heavy as mercury with a narrow slit in its base, suspended above a zither. Trained by a Hungarian musician, the worm arches its body to regulate the flow of drops on to the zither and thus plays wondrously complex rhapsodies and waltzes with 'a savagely dramatic range of expression'. Entering his flood of stories is, as André Gide said, like being swept up in a Gulf Stream of the imagination.
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posted by Marco Graziosi 1:42 PM
Monday, January 08, 2001
Edward Gorey
No one sheds light on darkness from quite the same perspective as this Cape Cod specialist in morbid, fine-lined jocularity.
[This is a long article on Gorey's career from Salon's 'Brilliant Careers' series. A 'Gorey Gallery' is also included.]
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posted by Marco Graziosi 1:45 PM
The following items link to pages in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, with descriptions of collections containing Edward Lear material.
posted by Marco Graziosi 1:39 PM
ALFRED TENNYSON COLLECTION
Ongoing collection of documents acquired by gift and purchase from various sources. Type of accession (gift or purchase) and date of acquisition is noted in the box-and-folder list. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
[Includes several letters on the Lear-illustrated Tennyson's Works, as well as a few letters from Lear to the Tennyson family, generally containing caricatures.]
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
posted by Marco Graziosi 1:20 PM
STEVEN H. SCHEUER COLLECTION OF TELEVISION PROGRAM SCRIPTS
[Includes script for a 10 Jun 1956 'Nonsense (Edward Lear)' program.]
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
posted by Marco Graziosi 1:17 PM
OSBORN 19TH CENTURY BOUND MANUSCRIPTS (FOLIO)
[Full list of the Osborn shelves material, which includes Lear watercolors.]
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
posted by Marco Graziosi 1:14 PM
BURNEY-LEAR DRAWINGS
The Burney-Lear Drawings consists of over 1,000 watercolors, sketches, and drawings by Edward Francis Burney, other members of the Burney family, members of the Hoare family, Edward Lear, and others. Most of the drawings are unsigned, and some of the attributions are still uncertain. The majority of the material appears to date from the first half of the nineteenth century.
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
posted by Marco Graziosi 12:57 PM
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