Edward Lear (1812-1888)

A selective bibliography of open access articles on British story writer and poet Edward Lear, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages

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Literary Criticism

Conner, Patrick. Review of Exhibition "Edward Lear. London, Royal Academy." First page of article only. The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 127, No. 988 (Jul., 1985),

Levi, Peter. A review of Levi's Edward Lear: A Biography (Scribner), reviewed in Insight on the News, July 17, 1995, by Rex Roberts

Noakes, Vivien, ed. A review of Noakes' Edward Lear: The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense. Reviewed by Adam Mars-Jones, November 11, 2001, The Observer. "Edward Lear gets a new image with a new edition of The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense, in which he is no longer sexual, let alone gay. What nonsense."

Snider, Clifton. "Victorian Trickster: A Jungian Consideration of Edward Lear's Nonsense Verse," Psychological Perspectives (Spring- Summer 1991)

Williams, James. An introductory article on Edward Lear from the Literary Encyclopedia

Introductory, Overview

A syllabus for a course in Victorian Satire, includes works by Edward Lear and others. English course at the Univ. of British Columbia

George Landow's Victorian Web, a brief overview of Edward Lear

Timeline for Edward Lear and a list of his writings, from a web site on "the 250 of Britain's most famous people."

On Edward Lear's achievement and his epilepsy, from a web site about artists with epilepsy

A virtual exhibition of Lear's paintings of foreign lands, from Yale U

An online exhibit of Lear's watercolors painted in Greece, courtesy of several museums

A brief introduction to Edward Lear from the Academy of American Poets

Internet Texts, Web Sites

Notes on the Victorians and their art from the Tate Museum, designed for use by teachers of all grade levels, provides a good introduction to the Victorian period and particularly to Victorian art

A guide to Victorian research resources from the VICTORIA discussion list for Victorian Studies

For a list of Edward Lear's etexts available on the internet, use this link to the On-Line Books Page, a search engine that provides links to full texts on the internet

(removed) An appreciative introduction to "The Owl and the Pussycat," by Lloyd Schwartz in The Atlantic (Monthly) Unbound, May 2002

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