Description
A Book of Nonsense is a story of an Old Derry down Derry who likes to see some of his fellows jolly and wrote them this book with fun and laughter as they read the stories of that Derry down Derry. Some of the stories include There was an Old Man with a beard, There was a Young Lady of Ryde, There was an Old Man with a nose, There was an Old Man on a hill, There was a Young Lady whose bonnet, There was a Young Person of Smyrna, There was an Old Person of Chili, There was an Old Man with a gong. Edward Lear was a London artist, illustrator, musician, writer and poet, and is referred to at present especially for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and specifically his elegies, a form he made popular. His three chief areas of work as an artist were as a draughtsman hired to draw birds and animals; creating colored illustrations during his travels, which he redrafted after, at times as plates for his journey novels; as a minor illustrator of Alfred Tennyson’s poems. As a writer, he is mostly known for his interesting nonsense volumes of poems, songs, short literature, botanical drawings, recipes, and phonetics. He also composed and printed twelve musical settings of Alfred Tennyson’s poetry. He was born in Holloway, North London, the one before the last of 21 children and he was the youngest to survive, to parents Ann Clark Skerrett and Jeremiah Lear. He was cared for by his oldest sister, named as Ann, like his mother, 21 years older than him. Since the family has financial burdens, Edward and his sister were asked to depart their home and both live together when he was 4. Ann raised Edward and acted as his own mother until she died, when he was about 50.
Product ID: 9781776723645
Sku: TL-9JHA-PN9N
