What's New

11 April 2002

• Carolyn Wells, A Nonsense Anthology, 1903; full text of the book in pdf format, to the Essays on Lear and Nonsense Literature page.

26 March 2002

• Added several articles to the Essays on Lear and Nonsense Literature page

18 November 2001

• Added two 1945 essays by George Orwell:
  • Nonsense Poetry
  • Funny, But Not Vulgar
• G.K. Chesterton, Child Psychology and Nonsense (1921).

17 April 2001

• Added a page for Lear's picture stories. New stories:
  • St. Kiven and the Gentle Kathleen
  • The tragical life and death of Caius Marius (1841)

6 August 2000

• Updated Edward Lear and Music page, with new arrangements of Lear's works; it now also includes a list of recordings of Lear recitals.
• A Bibliography of Edward Lear's Works now links to the works available online, either here or elsewhere.
• New Lear links.

5 August 2000

• New essays:
  • Michele Sala, Lear's Nonsense. Beyond Children Literature
  • Clifton Snider, Victorian Trickster: A Jungian Consideration of Edward Lear's Nonsense Verse
• Updated:
  • A Bibliography of Edward Lear's Works
  • Studies on Edward Lear and Nonsense Literature
• We might soon have our own domain: nonsenselit.it!

5 July 2000

• Announcement: Charles Lewsen In How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear
• Sorry for the long delay in updating these pages, I hope I'll be adding new material soon.

1 September 1999

• Several new articles added to the Studies on Edward Lear page.
• Lear and music page updated.

26 May 1999

• A new book of pictures and verses is online: Queery Leary Nonsense.
• Some coloured birds invented by Lear have also been added and linked from several pages.

15 May 1999

• Added search function thanks to PicoSearch.

10 May 1999

• A posthumous book containing a picture story is online: Lear in Sicily with all the pictures, introduction and notes.
• Several entries added in the Musical arrangements page.

April 1999

• The site has been completely redesigned. Two mirror sites opened, in the USA (http://edwardlear.cjb.net/) and in Europe (http://elear.cjb.net/). Though you can still enjoy it with any browser, a CSS style sheet enabled one will offer best results.

January 1999

• Added link to subscribe to the Edward Lear mailing list. Thanks to ListBot
• Added a form to obtain notification of changes to this page.

November 1998

• Several new poems added to the Posthumous Works page. Thanks to Douglas Love.
• A few items added to the Lear and Music page.

19 April 1998 The Lear Home Page has received two new awards, from StudyWeb and Setoff. Added a page on musical arrangements of Lear's poems. Updated the pages on Lear's genealogy.

5 February 1998

• The biographical section has been updated and revised, adding information on Lear's genealogy and several links to other sections.
• Several translations added to the Bibliography of Lear's works.

20 January 1998

• All the songs from Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets are now online

2 January 1998

• The History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-popple added.
• Four new images from the Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria and the Kingdom of Naples added to the Lear Art page.
• New items in the Lear Links page.

3 December 1997

• Added Cartoon versions of The Owl and the Pussycat to Lear's Works page.

18 October 1997

• Laughable Lyrics is now completely online.
• Added section on Lear's Posthumous Works
• Added pictures of covers from the original editions of A Book of Nonsense, Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets, and Laughable Lyrics
• New Edward Lear Links

23 August 1997

• New songs from Laughable Lyrics:
  • The New Vestments
  • Mr. and Mrs. Discobbolos

7 August 1997

• New songs from Laughable Lyrics:
  • The Jumblies
  • The Two Old Bachelors
  • The Pelican Chorus
  • The Quangle Wangle's Hat
• Two poems about Edward Lear, by Tennyson (see also Lear's parody of this) and Auden
• New items in the bibliography of Lear's works

9 May 1997

• New page with Portraits of Lear, as well as three portraits.
• New Edward Lear's Art page, four parrot illustrations added.
• New Pentatette Seal of Approval on Home Page, Pentatette link added in Limericks links page
• Announcement of Second Annual Limerick Contest on Home Page.
• Home Page completely redesigned, added second-level TOCs.
• Link to poetry generation page in Nonsense links page.

2 February 1997

• The two earliest limerick books: The History of Sixteen Wonderful Old Women and Anecdotes and Adventures of Fifteen Gentlemen.
• Added HotBot search form to Links page.

21 January 1997

• A Review of the Victorian Database on CD-ROM.

8 January 1997

• Updated Bibliography of Works about Lear.
• New links in the Edward Lear, Nonsense Poetry, Comics and Limericks pages.
• Counter removed from the home page.

12 November 1996

• Thomastic Limericks: an article on Aquinas's use of the limerick meter.
• New links to Lear's Songs in the Lear Links page and to W.S. Gilbert's Bab Ballads in the Nonsense Links page.

9 October 1996

• Two new articles:
  • The Limerick;
  • Arthur Deex, The Assent of Limerick.
• Added items to Studies on Edward Lear page.
• Added several new links.

25 July 1996

• More Nonsense, 1872.
• Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò page updated.
• A Book of Nonsense revised.
• Added a few links.

13 June 1996

• The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Round the World and The Pobble Who Has No Toes added to the Songs and Stories page.
• Revised my home page to include an essay on G.M. Hopkins' Aesthetic Theory and a reference to my school's home page.

10 June 1996

• Added the counter (including the contacts at previous location) to the Home Page.
• New links in the Lear, limericks and comics link pages.

5 June 1996

• New essay: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Nonsense (in Italian).

1 June 1996

The pages have reached America! New URL.
Added an Essays section with a review of Maxima's CD-ROM and Sir Edward Strachey's Introduction to Lear's Nonsense Songs and Stories (1895).

27 May 1996

All limericks from the 1861 Book of Nonsense are now online.
Added a couple of pictures to the Chronology.
New logo for the pages and general reorganization of the site.

5 May 1996
The Lear pages have been voted among the Favourite Web Sites at SFBUZZ Weekend Browser Award! I have removed the link to SFBUZZ as it redirected to a pornographic site, I'm sorry if you ever happened to click it.
New Fulford Gallery link in the Lear links page.

19 April 1996

MAXIMA New Media's Edward Lear Limerick Contest.
New Lear Links.

20 February 1996

Three limericks which appeared only in the 1846 and 1855 editions added.
New Little Nemo Page added to Comics links.

20 January 1996

New Edward Gorey and several Morgenstern links in the Nonsense Links page. Updated link to Ch. Cave's Joyce page and added link to the Children's Literature Web Guide in Literature Links page.
Added a few items to the bibliography of Lear Works.

6 January 1996

Added a review of MAXIMA New Media's Lear CD-ROM.
Nonsense links page reorganized and some links added.

17 December 1995

Chronology completed. I have very little space left for the Lear pages!

15 December 1995

New song: The Dong with a Luminous Nose.
I have changed the background color after receiving a pair of messages lamenting difficulties in reading the introductory pages; let me know if the new color has improved readability.

13 December 1995

The Daddy Long-legs and the Fly to Nonsense Songs and Stories page.
New links in the Nonsense Literature section: Eliot's Book of Practical Cats and other Eliot resources.

10 November 1995
"There was an Old Derry down Derry" has been slected as the Starting Point's daily 'Featured Hot Site'!

9 December 1995

Nonsense Songs and Stories page with The Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò (lyrics and MIDI file).
Added subject table to links page, as well as a new link to 3 Guys Who Draw page in the Comics section.

5 December 1995

Added links to Maxima New Media's Lear CD-ROMs, Dan Gregor's transcript of Lear's Alphabet and Dan Visel's Nonsense books links. Home page slightly modified (removed introduction to the limerick).

3 December 1995

Added links to Lear's The Jumblies, to Archy and Mehitabel pages (thanks to Jim Ennes), and to David Dodd's essay on Nonsense in Grateful Dead's songs.

1 December 1995

Added the first 60 limericks from A Book of Nonsense and the page about G. Verbeek's Terrors of the Tiny Tads. Some links still lead to empty or incomplete documents; I'm working hard on these.

First set up on 26 November 1995

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