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Sat Jun 20

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Thu May 28

• Edward Lear - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Lear's nonsense works are distinguished by a facility of verbal invention and a poet's delight in the sounds of words, both real and imaginary. A stuffed rhinoceros becomes a "diaphano us doorscraper&qu ot;. A "blue Boss-Woss" ; plunges into "a perpendicular, spicular, orbicular, quadrangular, circular depth of soft mud". His heroes are Quangle-Wangle s, Pobbles, and Jumblies. His most famous piece of verbal invention, a "runcible spoon" occurs in the closing lines of The Owl and the Pussycat, and is now found in many English dictionaries: They dined on mince, and slices of quince Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon, The moon, The moon, They danced by the light of the moon. Though famous for his neologisms, Lear employed a number of other devices in his works in order to defy reader expectations. For example, "Cold Are The Crabs",[3 ]
• Nonsense Books by Edward Lear, 1894: Surely the most beneficent and innocent of all books yet produced is the "Book of Nonsense," ; with its corollary carols, inimitable and refreshing, and perfect in rhythm. I really don't know any author to whom I am half so grateful for my idle self as Edward Lear. I shall put him first of my hundred authors. ?JOHN RUSKIN, In the "List of the Best Hundred Authors."

Mon May 25

• Edward Lear, Nonsense Botany 1871
• Edward Lear, Twenty-Six Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures

Mon May 11

• Bok-Christian_ 11_Ubu-Hubbub_ Segue_NY_5-19- 01.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object): yikes ..
• Stop Making Sense / Poetry Off the Shelf: Poetry Foundation [audio]

Mon Apr 20

• A review of 100 Poems to Lift Your Spirits by Leslie Pockwell (Ed) :: The Compulsive Reader :: A Haven for Book Lovers: The edition?s merit lies in its attempt to raise a person?s spirit with poetry touching you with nature, nonsense poems, insights on spirituality and with poets who talked about meeting down-hearted people and needing to cheer them up.

Sun Apr 19

• Jabberwocky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

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