Tag: Edward Lear
Edward Lear’s Book of Nonsense
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Edward-Lear-Book-of-Nonsense.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 2/8/2007 Book of Nonsense Transcript One hundred and fifty-five years ago today, in London, at 26 Haymarket, the publisher Thomas McLean released a curious little book. It was entitled, The Book of Nonsense and the author, according to the cover, was a certain Derry Down Derry. […]
Limericks for St. Patrick’s Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Limericks-for-St.-Patricks-Day.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 3/17/2005 Limericks for St. Patrick’s Day Transcript “There was an old man who lived in Nantucket.” Now hold on, don’t worry. This isn’t what you think. I want to clear the name of that poor Old Man once and for all. The original Limerick, […]
T. S. Eliot
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/T-S-Eliot-That-Ol-Possum.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 9/23/2004 T. S. Eliot Transcript T. S. Eliot has been called “The greatest literary figure of the English-speaking world in the 20th Century.” He was the recipient of the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature and his poem, The Waste Land, is widely considered the most […]
Walter de la Mare
Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 4/25/2001 Walter de la Mare Transcript Walter De la Mare was born in England in 1873. He was raised in a Victorian landscape of childhood that presented a dichotomy of poetic views. On the one side, there were the irreverent and humorous authors like Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, while […]
Edward Lear
You’re hearing part of Carly and Lucy Simon’s version of Edward Lear’s “The Owl and the Pussycat.”