Edward Lear's lines of flight
2013; British Academy; Volume: 1; Linguagem: Inglês
10.5871/jba/001.031
ISSN2052-7217
Autores Tópico(s)Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
ResumoVerily I am an odd bird', Edward Lear wrote in his diary in 1860.This article examines a range of odd encounters between birds and people in Lear's paint ings, illustrations, and poems.It considers how his interest in birds-an interest at once scientific and aesthetic-helped to shape his nonsense writings.I suggest that poetic and pictorial lines of flight became, for Lear, a means of exploring the claims that art might make on our attention.
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