Edward Lear

There was an old man on the Border, Who lived in the utmost disorder;He danced with the cat, and made tea in his hat,Which vexed all the folks on the Border.Enjoy Edward Lears hilarious, bizarre and delightfully bonkers limericks - published on their own for the first time. As found in the collected works, The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear, which has been in print since 1947 and has sold tens of thousands of copies. The nonsense works, of which the limericks were a part, were first published in the mid-1800s.

Edward Lear (1812-1888) is one of the best-loved of English poets. His comic invention and unconstrained sense of the absurd have been enjoyed by generations of children, and treasured by adults conscious of the subtle melancholy that underlies the fun. This collection includes all the favourite nonsense poems. Peter Swaab sets them alongside a generous selection from Lears six travel books (including his three Journals of a Landscape Painter), first published between 1841 and 1870, and long out of print. For the first time Lear is presented as an adventurer, not only in the fabled lands of the Jumblies and the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo, but also in nineteenth-century Albania, Greece, Calabria and Corsica, where his encounters with the people and customs of these sometimes equally strange and challenging cultures are recorded with the same acute and rueful comic imagination.

Sulle orme dei grandi viaggiatori stranieri di 700 e 800, Edward Lear, famoso nei paesi di lingua inglese come inventore di quelle filastrocche che vanno sotto il nome di limericks, intraprende, nellautunno del 1847, un viaggio in Basilicata, traendone inesauribile materia di esercizio per la sua penna di scrittore e la matita di paesaggista. La cronaca di quel viaggio restituisce tratti inediti o poco noti della regione: i percorsi accidentati, le soste in squallide taverne, i soggiorni in numerosi paesi e loro descrizioni, leggende, feste e tradizioni popolari, gli incontri con personaggi imprevedibili e una folla di gente ora cordiale ora guardinga o sospettosa.

Plumaje brillante, técnica exquisita El libro ilustrado de los loros de Edward Lear Edward Lear puede ser más conocido por sus versos absurdos, pero en sus años tempranos descolló como ilustrador de aves y reptiles. Esta coleccion de 42 litografias coloreadas a mano, tituladas originalmente Ilustraciones de la familia de los psitacidos, o loros, fue el mayor logro en su carrera relativamente breve como dibujante de historia natural, antes de que un problema ocular lo condujera a concentrarse en su escritura. En la epoca de Lear, los loros vivos eran infrecuentes y muy buscados, comprados y vendidos por fuertes sumas de dinero por magnates aficionados a la historia natural y valorados por la aristocracia europea del siglo XIX por su asombroso plumaje y su imitacion de la voz humana. Desde luego, los buenos dibujos de ellos tambien eran muy cotizados. Una de las primeras colecciones enteramente dedicadas a la especie, Loros incluye ejemplares africanos, australianos y americanos criados por eminentes ornitologos como sir William Jardine y Prideaux John Selby, que patrocinaron a Lear, inspirando y dirigiendo su trabajo. Al contrario de otros ilustradores de aves, el joven y prodigiosamente talentoso Lear (1812-1888) realizaba sus dibujos a partir de loros vivos, capturando sus expresiones y movimientos en ilustraciones notablemente vivaces. El nuevo medio de la litografia coloreada a mano facilito la intensa elegancia de la obra de Lear. Esta coleccion exquisita fue reproducida originalmente en 175 series unicas y vendida por suscripcion a los eruditos mas eminentes y los coleccionistas mas opulentos de loros vivos en Gran Bretaña. Los Psitacidos hicieron de Lear un ilustrador celebre y el profesor de dibujo de la joven reina Victoria. Con una breve introduccion zoologica y descripciones escritas de cada ave, la reimpresion perfecta de TASCHEN devuelve a la vida los loros de Lear para admiracion de todos.

Edward Lear was the greatest nonsensicalist of all time. He was the inventor of the limerick and created the Jumblies and The Owl and the Pussycat. This complete edition of Lears nonsense verse - including the limericks, longer verses, alphabets and his own illustrations - is lovingly restored and beautifully presented, for adults and children to enjoy together.

“¿Qué entendemos por “sinsentidos”? Yo lo sé… cuando no se me pregunta por ello. Sé que en la infancia son como el aire que respiramos; que nos alegran y fortalecen durante las largas y duras jornada

Illus.: William Foster

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 agofrom "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 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.

There was an old man on the Border, Who lived in the utmost disorder; He danced with the cat, and made tea in his hat, Which vexed all the folks on the Border. Enjoy Edward Lear's hilarious, bizarre and delightfully bonkers limericks - published on their own for the first time. As found in the collected works, The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear, which has been in print since 1947 and has sold tens of thousands of copies. The nonsense works, of which the limericks were a part, were first published in the mid-1800s.

Quan Edward Lear era a casa de Lord Stanley, que l’havia contractat per dibuixar la seva col·lecció zoològica, va començar a fer unes estrofes de cinc versos per divertir els infants de la casa. Els

A BOOK OF NONSENSE

Este Fabuleario de Lear recoge un conjunto de obras del gran maestro inglés del nonsense. Se inicia el libro con una selección de limericks, poemas de cinco versos de origen irlandés de tema satírico y con elementos absurdos, denominados Limelearicks.