Search Results - "Edward Lear"
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‘Saved from the sordid axe’: representation and understanding of pine trees by English visitors to Italy in the eighteenth and nineteenth century
Published 2016“…Pines continued to be painted by amateurs and professionals including Elizabeth Fanshawe, William Strangways, Edward Lear, John Ruskin. These trees were also an important element of local agriculture; in parts of Liguria they were grown in vineyards in an unusual type of coltura promiscua providing both support for the vines and fertiliser from pine needles; in Tuscany and Ravenna pine plantations and forests were an important source of pine nuts. …”
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Classical reception and children's literature: Greece, Rome and childhood transformation
Published 2018“…It begins with a case study on Michael Cadnum, and moves on to a section on Changing Times which looks at broad studies of Aesop and Roman Britain; section two looks at mythology, particularly Pan, Arachne and Narcissus, and explores the interaction between text and image; section 3 looks at didactic Classics, school stories, Edward Lear and Caroline Lawrence; two articles on Ovid and Apuleius in C. …”
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