Books
The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense Edward Lear Edited by Vivien Noakes Penguin: 624 pp., $16 paper * In 1886, the redoubtable Victorian critic John Ruskin was invited by the Pall Mall Gazette of London to draw up a “List of the Best Hundred Authors.”
Jan. 5, 2003
Charmingly declaring the Victorian nonsense poet Edward Lear to be “one of the world’s natural uncles,” his newest biographer, the British poet and classicist Peter Levi, seems to be vying for the position of favorite nephew.
Oct. 8, 1995
Years ago in an undergraduate Shakespeare paper I posited that the lustful sisters of “King Lear,” Goneril and Regan, might have been affected by stages of the moon often mentioned in that play.
Sept. 28, 2017
Entertainment & Arts
Time was when the limericks of British artist Edward Lear were taught to every kid in the English-speaking world.
April 19, 1995
World & Nation
Aviation: Only the pilot and copilot were aboard. The private craft disappeared near a New Hampshire airport last Christmas Eve.
Nov. 16, 1997
Much ado about nonsense
March 30, 2009
Culture Monster Blog
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March 29, 2009
Politics
Norman Lear has realized that the secret to being Hollywood’s elder statesman is to think young.
Feb. 9, 2007
The front-runner’s bandwagon is pulling into town with many of Hollywood’s Democrats ready to pull out their checkbooks.
Feb. 28, 2004
Taking on Shakespeare’s elderly tragic hero for the first time in his career, John Lithgow opened on Tuesday in “King Lear” in a new production at the Delacorte Theater in New York’s Central Park.
Aug. 6, 2014