Comments for Edward Lear's Diaries

Comment on Thursday, 8 November 1860 by phxwnroazty

phxwnroazty — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:32:50 +0000

Comment on Tuesday, 4 February 1862 by Valerie

Valerie — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:03:13 +0000

Poor Edward is having problems with “the Demon” today .

Comment on Wednesday, 18 January 1860 by Kelello

Kelello — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:10:54 +0000

Tennyson’s poem rnmdeis me of the magnificent waves caused from the water going through the narrow channel between the Hurst Castle and the Isle of Wight.

Comment on Wednesday, 29 January 1862 by Peter Byrne

Peter Byrne — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:15:16 +0000

“A keen sense of every kind of beauty, is, I take it, if given in the extreme ― always more or less a sorrow to its owner, ― tho’ productive of good to others.” This is an incisive glimpse of how Lear saw his vocation as an artist and well to remember amid all the salesman’s work he has to do to get by.

Comment on Thursday, 23 January 1862 by Marco Graziosi

Marco Graziosi — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:44:42 +0000

The X means an epileptic seizure, the number that it is the seventh since the beginning of the month.

Comment on Thursday, 23 January 1862 by Jane Applebee

Jane Applebee — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:08:14 +0000

What does X7 mean? D0 you know?

Comment on Friday, 17 January 1862 by Peter Byrne

Peter Byrne — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:20:01 +0000

“I wonder what comes after death.” But doesn’t Lear follow all the Christian rituals to the letter? (He only objects to a boring sermon.) As a conformist Victorian believer he would know what to expect in the afterlife, a pleasant time to the sound of a harp or a prolonged, very tropical season. Musings like his make us suspect that he’s a more complex personality than we thought.

Comment on Tuesday, 24 December 1861 by Peter Byrne

Peter Byrne — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 07:36:44 +0000

“Or…anywhere?” Has there ever been a sadder statement of Xmas
non-cheer?

Comment on Monday, 23 December 1861 by Peter Byrne

Peter Byrne — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:50:54 +0000

Lear’s attitude toward Giorgio here must have been out of the ordinary in the 1860s. It sounds like a couple of old married folk.

Comment on Monday, 9 December 1861 by Iris

Iris — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:33:24 +0000

Come Monday morning I will have a new cubicle sign “Alas for the industrious days”. Thank you for sharing. Ta-ra!