Edward Lear's Feelings Podcast
1) ‘Edward Lear’s Vision’, by Professor Matthew Bevis
A talk given at the Ashmolean Museum on Edward Lear’s life, art, and poetry. Edward Lear’s achievements – as a nonsense poet, scientific illustrator, and landscape painter – have often been studied in...Show More
2) Weeping
'He weeps by the side of the ocean, He weeps on the top of the hill', the poet wrote of himself in 'How Pleasant to Know Mr Lear'. This programme considers when and why people cry in Lear's work, and ...Show More
3) Laughter
Lear once spoke of 'this ludicrously whirligig life which one suffers from first and laughs at afterwards.' This programme studies the intertwining of the laughable and the lamentable in Lear's work, ...Show More
4) Disgust
This programme explores appetite, desire, and disgust in Lear. It studies a range of limericks alongside his diaries and letters, and considers how the author's disgust at his own mental and physical ...Show More
5) Wonder
This programme examines different meanings of 'wonder' in Lear - as both a positive and a negative emotion, and as something in between. It studies his paintings alongside his nonsense, and closes wit...Show More
6) Introduction
This programme introduces Lear and outlines the structure of the programmes. Each episode will take on a different emotion or affect - wonder, disgust, laughter, tears - and offer some approaches to ...Show More