Inventing Edward Lear - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inventing Edward Lear write by Sara Lodge. This book was released on 2018-11-30. Inventing Edward Lear available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Inventing Edward Lear is an exceptional, valuable, original study, presenting new materials on aspects of Lear’s life and work.” —Jenny Uglow, author of Mr. Lear and The Lunar Men Edward Lear wrote some of the best-loved poems in English, including “The Owl and the Pussycat,” but the father of nonsense was far more than a poet. He was a naturalist, a brilliant landscape painter, an experimental travel writer, and an accomplished composer. Sara Lodge presents the fullest account yet of Lear’s passionate engagement in the intellectual, social, and cultural life of his times. Lear had a difficult start in life. He was epileptic, asthmatic, and depressive, but even as a child a consummate performer who projected himself into others’ affections. He became, by John James Audubon’s estimate, one of the greatest ornithological artists of the age. Queen Victoria—an admirer—chose him to be her painting teacher. He popularized the limerick, set Tennyson’s verse to music, and opened fresh doors for children and adults to share fantasies of magical escape. Lodge draws on diaries, letters, and new archival sources to paint a vivid picture of Lear that explores his musical influences, his religious nonconformity, his relationship with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, and the connections between his scientific and artistic work. He invented himself as a character: awkward but funny, absurdly sympathetic. In Lodge’s hands, Lear emerges as a dynamic and irreverent polymath whose conversation continues to draw us in. Inventing Edward Lear is an original and moving account of one of the most intriguing and creative of all Victorians.
Nonsense Books
Nonsense Books - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nonsense Books write by Edward Lear. This book was released on 2023-07-10. Nonsense Books available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Edward Lear began his career as an ornithological illustrator, becoming one of the first major artists to draw birds from living models. During this period he was employed to paint the birds from the private menagerie owned by Edward Stanley, the 13th Earl of Derby and one of Lear’s closest friends. In 1837, Lear’s health started to decline. His deteriorating eyesight and failing lungs forced him to abandon the detailed painting required for depicting birds, and, with the help of the earl, he moved to Rome where he established himself as a poet of literary nonsense. While Lear was visiting the Earl of Derby, he wrote poems and drew silly sketches to entertain the earl’s children. In 1846, he collected together his pile of limericks and illustrations and published his first poetical book, titled A Book of Nonsense and dedicated to the Earl of Derby and his children. He decided to publish under the pseudonym Derry down Derry, but after he started making plans for more books, he republished under his real name. His next book, Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets wasn’t published until 24 years later, in 1870. Lear then released More Nonsense, which contains more limericks, in 1872, and Laughable Lyrics in 1877. This final book in the series contains many of Lear’s most famous fantastical creatures, such as the Quangle Wangle. The influence of Lear’s poetry in the twentieth-century can be seen in styles like the surrealism movement and the theater of the absurd.
The Owl and the Pussycat
The Owl and the Pussycat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Owl and the Pussycat write by Edward Lear. This book was released on 2007-09. The Owl and the Pussycat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Edward Lear's beloved poem has charmed readers since it was first published in 1871. 4+ yrs.
Edward Lear
Edward Lear - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edward Lear write by Vivien Noakes. This book was released on 2006. Edward Lear available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The youngest but one of 21 children, Edward Lear had a constant struggle against ill-health, loneliness and depression throughout his life. This completely revised edition tell his story and includes new material on Lear's early life drawn from recently found letters.
A Book of Nonsense
A Book of Nonsense - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Book of Nonsense write by Edward Lear. This book was released on 1862. A Book of Nonsense available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of over 100 limericks with the author's original illustrations.
