Book of Nonsense (Containing Edward Lear's complete Nonsense Rhymes, Songs, and Stories with the Original Pictures) Contributor(s): Lear, Edward (Author) |
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ISBN: 1604449373 ISBN-13: 9781604449372 Publisher: Indoeuropeanpublishing.com OUR PRICE: $16.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction |
Physical Information: 0.47" H x 6" W x 9" (0.67 lbs) 204 pages |
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Publisher Description: Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularized. Lear's nonsense works are distinguished by a facility of verbal invention and a poet's delight in the sounds of words, both real and imaginary. A stuffed rhinoceros becomes a "diaphanous doorscraper". A "blue Boss-Woss" plunges into "a perpendicular, spicular, orbicular, quadrangular, circular depth of soft mud". His heroes are Quangle-Wangles, Pobbles, and Jumblies. His most famous piece of verbal invention, a "runcible spoon" occurs in the closing lines of The Owl and the Pussycat, and is now found in many English dictionaries. |