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There was an Old Person of Leeds, Whose head was infested with beads; She sat on a stool, And ate gooseberry fool, Which agreed with that person of Leeds."He reads but he cannot speak Spanish, / He cannot abide ginger-beer; / Ere the days of his pilgrimage vanish, / How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!" writes the 19th-century English poet Edward Lear in "Self Portrait of the Laureate of Nonsense." When The Book of Nonsense was first published in 1845, under Lear's pseudonym, Derry Down Derry, it was a success--some say it turned the once stodgy, didactic world of children's literature on its head.
This rollicking poetic romp begins with "A Book of Nonsense" (1846), a slew of more-odd-than-bawdy limericks about the Young Lady of Wales, the Old Man of Vienna, and many, many more, all accompanied by the spare, whimsical ink drawings done by Lear himself. Part two urges readers to leap into "Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets" (1871), including the classic "The Owl and the Pussy-cat" and "The Jumblies" (who "went to sea in a Sieve"), along with equally rib-tickling but lesser known selections such as "The Nutcrackers and the Sugar-Tongs." In this section, you'll also discover instructions for how to make Crumbobblious Cutlets, a "Nonsense Botany" guide featuring the Bottlephorkia spoonifolia and the Manypeeplia upsidownia, and "Nonsense Alphabets," strange little poems about quills, rattlesnakes, screws, and other words beginning with letters.
Part three merrily inflicts "More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, &c." (1877) on readers with the well-known plant Washtubbia circularis and more wacky limericks such as "There was an old person of Bar, / Who passed all her life in a jar, / Which she painted pea-green, to appear more serene, / That placid old person of Bar." As icing on a very strange cake, the last section offers "Laughable Lyrics, A Fourth Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Music, &c." (1877), notably including "The Pobble Who Has No Toes." Lear's quirky sense of humor infuses every line of his ever skillful verse, which is often alliterative, and always very silly. Lear, the Laureate of Nonsense, frolics frivolously, and no one should ever go to sea in a Sieve without a copy of this book in tow. (All ages) --Karin Snelson
TheaterMania.comFree Public Rehearsals Set for STC's King Lear Starring Stacy KeachThere will be two free public rehearsals of the Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of King Lear, to be directed by Robert Falls, at 3pm and 6pm at Sidney Harman Hall on Sunday, June 7. No reservations are required; admission is available on a
Times OnlineEdward Lear by WH Auden;His sharp portrait of another original mind, “Edward Lear”, appeared in the Spring Books supplement of March 25, 1939, framed by a pastiche of Lear's art, by Bip Pares. As John Fuller points out in his Auden Commentary, the poem itself takes its
Telegraph.co.ukHowever, the survey found 72 percent of respondents over the age of 60 were able to recite poetry standards including Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat." The survey suggests 93 percent of Britons believe poetry should be taught in schools, Poetry lost on four out of five of us Ode dear most of us can't recite a single poem Britons 'scared of reciting poetry' -
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