Nonsense Songs and Stories

Nonsense Songs and Stories PDF Author: Edward Lear
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Category : Children's poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Edward Lear's poetry and prose celebrates the joy of living, and has influenced writers and illustrators from Terry Gilliam to Spike Milligan and Ricky Gervais. Although the subject and form of his works varies greatly, all of Lear's poems can be characterized by his irreverent view of the world, and many critics view Lear's nonsense books as his way of undermining the all-pervasive orderliness and industriousness of Victorian society. However, regardless of his inspiration or impetus, the appeal of Lear's poems and illustrations has proved timeless. Nonsense Songs and Stories contains some of Lear's best-known poetry, as well as stories and songs about real and imagined creatures. Poems include "The Owl and the Pussycat," "The Jumblies," "Calico Pie," and the stories are "The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Round the World" and the "History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple."

Nonsense Songs and Stories

Nonsense Songs and Stories PDF Author: Edward Lear
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Category : Children's poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Book Description
Edward Lear's poetry and prose celebrates the joy of living, and has influenced writers and illustrators from Terry Gilliam to Spike Milligan and Ricky Gervais. Although the subject and form of his works varies greatly, all of Lear's poems can be characterized by his irreverent view of the world, and many critics view Lear's nonsense books as his way of undermining the all-pervasive orderliness and industriousness of Victorian society. However, regardless of his inspiration or impetus, the appeal of Lear's poems and illustrations has proved timeless. Nonsense Songs and Stories contains some of Lear's best-known poetry, as well as stories and songs about real and imagined creatures. Poems include "The Owl and the Pussycat," "The Jumblies," "Calico Pie," and the stories are "The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Round the World" and the "History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple."

Nonsense Songs and Stories

Nonsense Songs and Stories PDF Author: Edward Lear
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Category : Children's poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets

Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets PDF Author: Edward Lear
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Category : Alphabet rhymes
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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The Owl and the Pussycat

The Owl and the Pussycat PDF Author: Edward Lear
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1553378288
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Edward Lear's beloved poem has charmed readers since it was first published in 1871. 4+ yrs.

Nonsense Songs and Stories

Nonsense Songs and Stories PDF Author: Edward Lear
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Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Nonsense Books

Nonsense Books PDF Author: Edward Lear
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 625

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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 Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear

The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear PDF Author: Edward Lear
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486201672
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Compiles all of the nonsense limericks, songs, poems and stories written by the English poet

A Book of Nonsense

A Book of Nonsense PDF Author: Edward Lear
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Category : Children's poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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A collection of over 100 limericks with the author's original illustrations.

The Book of Nonsense

The Book of Nonsense PDF Author: Edward Lear
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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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.

The Story of the Four Little Children who Went Round the World

The Story of the Four Little Children who Went Round the World PDF Author: Edward Lear
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ISBN: 9781874687290
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Languages : en
Pages : 29

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First pub. 1871. Four little children sail round the world and discover an island full of chocolate drops, a country covered with orange trees, and the land of the Blue-Bottle-Fly. 5-8 yrs.