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So Much Nonsense

So Much Nonsense( )
Author: Lear, Edward
ISBN:978-1-85124-390-7
Publication Date:Nov 2007
Publisher:Bodleian Library
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $25.00
Book Description:

Beautifully presented as an art book in a livish binding, this book brings together Edward Lear's best-loved 'nonsense' verse and amusing illustrations in a single volume.

Book Details
Pages:256
Detailed Subjects: Poetry / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):7.02 x 7.02 x 0.975 Inches
Book Weight:1.672 Pounds
Author Biography
Lear, Edward (Author)
Edward Lear was born in Holloway, England, to Jeremiah (a stockbroker) and Ann Lear, tutored at home by his sister, and briefly attended the Royal Academy schools. Both an author and an illustrator, he earned his living as an artist from the age of 15, mainly by doing landscapes. What he is remembered for is his nonsense books, especially his popularization of the limerick. Along with Lewis Carroll, he is considered to be the founder of nonsense poetry.

In addition to his limericks, he created longer nonsense poems. The best---and best known---is The Jumblies, in which the title characters go to sea in a sieve; it is a brilliant, profound, silly, and sad expression of the need to leave the security of the known world and experience the wonder and danger of the unknown. His other most notable work is The Owl and the Pussy Cat, a less complex poem whose title characters also go to sea. Lear produced humorous alphabets and botany books as well.

His wordplay, involving puns, neologisms, portmanteau words, and anticlimax, retains its vitality today and has influenced such contemporary writers of children's nonsense verse as Shel Silverstein, Ogden Nash, and Laura Richards

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