There was an Old Derry down Derry...

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News: Octavo, who had already published Bell's Testudinata, now also offers a CD-ROM facsimile of Lear's Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots.

Why an Edward Lear page? Well, first of all because I like his nonsense very much, and then I wrote my thesis about him several years ago (don't worry, I'm not going to publish it!) so I am supposed to be widely read on the subject... Most important of all, however, is the fact that I haven't been able to find a great deal of Lear's nonsense poetry on the net and I think he deserves his small virtual space as much as his contemporary poetical colleague Lewis Carroll. After all, Lear may be considered the inventor of the term 'snail mail'.

That's it, if you share the Jumblies' spirit of adventure or your nose is as luminous as the Dong's, if you think there's nothing strange in living in the nest of an owl or your feelings are wrung with compuction, go on!

But, hey!, also have a look at Marco's home page, you might find something interesting there too.