Author : Edward Lear
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:230730727
The Dong with a Luminous Nose
Edward Lear
The Dong With A Luminous Nose
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The Dong with a Luminous Nose and Other Poems
Edward Lear
Author : Edward Lear
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Children's poetry, English
ISBN : OCLC:249019616
The Dong with a Luminous Nose and Other Poems by Edward Lear Pdf
The Owl and the Pussy Cat
Edward Lear
Author : Edward Lear
Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781474905701
The Owl and the Pussy Cat by Edward Lear Pdf
Edward Lear’s best-loved nonsense poem about the magical adventure of the Owl and the Pussycat who went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat, specially retold for beginner readers as part of the Usborne Reading Programme. Includes audio. "Crack reading and make confident and enthusiastic readers with this fantastic reading programme." - Julia Eccleshare
Book of Nonsense
Edward Lear
Author : Edward Lear
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447481447
Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear Pdf
Edward Lear's much celebrated book of nonsense is here reproduced with all the original pictures and verse and two autobiographical letters by the author. Children and adults alike will delight in the Limerick's that here abound. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
The Jumblies
Edward Lear
Author : Edward Lear
Publisher : Top That! Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 178244064X
The Jumblies by Edward Lear Pdf
The Dong with a Luminous Nose
Edward Lear
Author : Edward Lear
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Children's poetry, English
ISBN : UOM:39015011556134
The Dong with a Luminous Nose by Edward Lear Pdf
When his true love with the blue hands and the green hair sailed away, the Dong made himself an artificial nose with a light in it to watch for her.
The Quangle Wangle's Hat
Edward Lear
Author : Edward Lear
Publisher : Top That! Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1782440739
The Quangle Wangle's Hat by Edward Lear Pdf
The Quangle Wangle thought he was isolated at the top of a tree but his hat attracted a wide range of visitors.
Nonsense Poems
Edward Lear
Author : Edward Lear
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780486310619
Nonsense Poems by Edward Lear Pdf
Over 90 delightful limericks and 12 longer poems, including such classics as "The Owl and the Pussy-cat," "The Jumblies," and "Calico Pie," all accompanied by Lear's amusing illustrations.
His Shoes Were Far Too Tight
Edward Lear
Author : Edward Lear
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781452126692
His Shoes Were Far Too Tight by Edward Lear Pdf
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 Complete Nonsense and Other Verse
Edward Lear
Author : Edward Lear
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-07
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780140424652
The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse by Edward Lear Pdf
This collection demonstrates the varied ways in which Edward Lear pursued his philosophy of life. It includes 'The Owl and the Pussy-cat', 'The Quangle Wangle's Hat', and numerous comic limericks, along with stories, letters, alphabets and recipes. This ed. originally published: 2002.
Flow Chart
John Ashbery
Author : John Ashbery
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781480459090
Flow Chart by John Ashbery Pdf
A quintessentially American epic poem that rewrites all the rules of epic poetry—starting with the one that says epic poetry can’t be about the writing of epic poetry itself The appearance of Flow Chart in 1991 marked the kickoff of a remarkably prolific period in John Ashbery’s long career, a decade during which he published seven all-new books of poetry as well as a collected series of lectures on poetic form and practice. So it comes as no surprise that this book-length poem—one of the longest ever written by an American poet—reads like a rocket launch: charged, propulsive, mesmerizing, a series of careful explosions that, together, create a radical forward motion. It’s been said that Flow Chart was written in response to a dare of sorts: Artist and friend Trevor Winkfield suggested that Ashbery write a poem of exactly one hundred pages, a challenge that Ashbery took up with plans to complete the poem in one hundred days. But the celebrated work that ultimately emerged from its squared-off origin story was one that the poet himself called “a continuum, a diary.” In six connected, constantly surprising movements of free verse—with the famous “sunflower” double sestina thrown in, just to reinforce the poem’s own multivarious logic—Ashbery’s poem maps a path through modern American consciousness with all its attendant noise, clamor, and signal: “Words, however, are not the culprit. They are at worst a placebo, / leading nowhere (though nowhere, it must be added, can sometimes be a cozy / place, preferable in many cases to somewhere).”
Mr. Lear
Jenny Uglow
Author : Jenny Uglow
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466828230
Mr. Lear by Jenny Uglow Pdf
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.
The Forsaken Merman and Other Story Poems
Berlie Doherty,Nick Maland
Author : Berlie Doherty,Nick Maland
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0340689986
The Forsaken Merman and Other Story Poems by Berlie Doherty,Nick Maland Pdf
Combining the best qualities of both storytelling and poetry, this rare collection has a special magic that will enchant readers. From the suspense of "The Listeners" to the sadness of "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," the humor of "The Train to Glasgow" to the sheer entertainment of "The Dong with a Luminous Nose," this beautifully illustrated book will delight all tastes.
Nonsense Books
Edward Lear
Author : Edward Lear
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9791041802883
Nonsense Books by Edward Lear Pdf
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.
Wakefulness
John Ashbery
Author : John Ashbery
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781480459120
Wakefulness by John Ashbery Pdf
A collection of poems that recall, in their powerful transformations of language, the moment of clarity that arrives upon waking from a dream One of John Ashbery’s most critically acclaimed collections since his iconic works of the mid-1970s, Wakefulness was praised in 1999 for its beauty and alertness. In these pages, the great poet is at once luring the reader into a vivid dream and waking us up with a jolt of recognition. In poems such as “The Village of Sleep,” “Shadows in the Street,” and “Wakefulness,” dreams, sleeplessness, and other transformational and liminal states are revealed to be part of a ceaseless continuity of accelerating changes. Even the most seemingly familiar phrases (“stop me if you’ve heard this one”) are ever in the process of changing their meanings, especially in Ashbery’s hands. And distinctive new realities are created constantly by the power of words, in strange and beautiful combinations. With every word and every line, Ashbery questions the real and summons a new reality.