'How Pleasant to Know Mr. 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 'How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear!' write by Edward Lear. This book was released on 1995-05. 'How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear!' available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents the following nonsense verses: How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear, The Jumblies, The Dong with a Luminous Nose, and The Scroobious Pip.
Mr. Lear
Mr. 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 Mr. Lear write by Jenny Uglow. This book was released on 2018-04-17. Mr. Lear available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A sparkling biography of the poet and artist Edward Lear by the award-winning biographer Jenny Uglow Edward Lear, the renowned English artist, musician, author, and poet, lived a vivid, fascinating life, but confessed, “I hardly enjoy any one thing on earth while it is present.” He was a man in a hurry, “running about on railroads” from London to country estates and boarding steamships to Italy, Corfu, India, and Palestine. He is still loved for his “nonsenses,” from startling, joyous limericks to great love poems like “The Owl and the Pussy Cat” and “The Dong with a Luminous Nose,” and he is famous, too, for his brilliant natural history paintings, landscapes, and travel writing. But although Lear belongs solidly to the age of Darwin and Dickens—he gave Queen Victoria drawing lessons, and his many friends included Tennyson and the Pre-Raphaelite painters—his genius for the absurd and his dazzling wordplay make him a very modern spirit. He speaks to us today. Lear was a man of great simplicity and charm—children adored him—yet his humor masked epilepsy, depression, and loneliness. Jenny Uglow’s beautifully illustrated biography, full of the color of the age, brings us his swooping moods, passionate friendships, and restless travels. Above all, Mr. Lear shows how this uniquely gifted man lived all his life on the boundaries of rules and structures, disciplines and desires—an exile of the heart.
His Shoes Were Far Too Tight
His Shoes Were Far Too Tight - 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 His Shoes Were Far Too Tight write by Edward Lear. This book was released on 2013-04-02. His Shoes Were Far Too Tight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Renowned author Daniel Pinkwater and best-selling poet and artist Calef Brown team up to champion the ridiculous! These endlessly fascinating and imaginative poems are as fresh and delightful today as they were when Edward Lear wrote them more than a hundred years ago—from "The Owl and the Pussycat" to "The Pobble Who Has No Toes." This charming book proves that, sometimes, there's nothing children need more than a healthy dose of nonsense!
The Book of Nonsense
The 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 The Book of Nonsense write by Edward Lear. This book was released on 2022-05-28. The Book of Nonsense available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Book of Nonsense, first published in 1846, stands alone as the ultimate and most loved expression in English of freewheeling, benign, and unconstricted merriment. The poems of the book tell the stories of the owls, hen, larks, and their nests in his beard, and other fey fauna and peculiar persons. They all inhabit the uniquely inspired nonsense rhymes and drawings of Lear, who was a 20th child of a London stockbroker.
Nonsense Poems
Nonsense Poems - 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 Poems write by Edward Lear. This book was released on 2011-11-17. Nonsense Poems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A new collection of nonsense verses, many beginning "There was an old man . . " or "There was a young lady . . ."
