Navy blue softcover is "Oxford bound in leather and fibre by Brown and Bigelow". A literary anthology covering the subjects of wisdom, humor, Benjamin Franklin, history, beauty, and business. more..

Poetry is a special use of language. A poem leaps from the heart into the mind, then dances onto the page. A poem is a song that traps a mood or spirit or a wild flight of fancy. A poem is made from words that are given music by their rhythm. The rhythm may be tightly ordered and very regular. Or the rhythm may come from special phrasings and be very irregular. But the words themselves are more..

Exact facsimile of both books. Printed in Great Britain. "A Book of Nonsense" (1846) begins with "A Book of Nonsense" (1846), a slew of more-odd-than-bawdy limericks about the Young Lady of Wales, the Old Man of Vienna, and many, many more, all accompanied by the spare, whimsical ink drawings done by Lear himself. Part two urges readers to leap into "Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets" more..

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Frontispiece with tissue covering and 7 other black and white half tone plates by Peter Newell Part of Harper's Young People Series published circa 1907. more..

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This is a collection of nonsense poems by Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll, some famous, some less well-known. The poetry is illustrated by Nicki Palin, who was shortlisted for the Mother Goose Award for her work on "St George and the Dragon". more..

Journal, American Literature, Ezra Pound Studies, Literary Studies more..

"Phantasmagoria" is a narrative discussion written in seven cantos between a ghost (a Phantom) and a man named Tibbets. Carroll portrays the ghost as not so different from human beings: although ghosts may jibber and jangle their chains, they, like us, simply have a job to do and that job is to haunt. Just as in our society, in ghost society there is a hierarchy, and ghosts are answerable to the more..