Word: lear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...literary curiosity, Old Possum's cat book rates high. The verses, which show a perfect skill, are profoundly Anglican, closer in spirit and allusion to Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll than to any U. S. humor. In some of them Eliot goes kittenish in a big way, recalling that suspect, sissified element in Lear and Carroll which sets U. S. teeth on edge. Yet latent in other of Possum's poems is enough ferocious fancy and parody to knock the spots off most cat books and most child verses...
Jack Herbert James, Donald Carl Johnson, Willy Ludwig Kraus, Eric Larrabee, Walter Jay Lear, Perry Deyo LeFevre, Martin Lubin, Roger Thurston Lyford, Werner Karl Mass, Robert Lempereur McMurtrie, Harold Morton Mooney, James Wiliam Morley, Albert Stanley Murphy...
...each in his own way, the Spokesmen played their parts magnificently. Incomprehensible or mad to most of the world, a simple, injured man in his own eyes, Adolf Hitler fulfilled his destiny, as lonely as King Lear on the windswept heath, raced off through Europe's darkest night talking of victory or death (see p. 28). Laconic Edouard Daladier talked like a soldier of war and of the way to fight it. High-minded Chamberlain and grave Halifax, two Shakespearean characters in a tragic drama, spoke of right, of justice, of the moral problems of the conflict...
...sequiturs of Lear's Nonsense Alphabets leave laughing Lear addicts in tears. Sample...
...upon her Dobie jerks retired majors from the India service out of their club chairs. But to most people, big and little, The Owl and the Pussy-Cat and many punny funny drawings remain Lear's tag to fame...