Author: Carolyn WellsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nonsense verses
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
A Nonsense Anthology
Author: Carolyn WellsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A Nonsense Anthology
Author: Carolyn WellsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nonsense verses
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
A Nonsense Anthology
Author: Carolyn WellsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nonsense verses
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
A Nonsense Anthology
Author: Carolyn WellsPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781514393024
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
On a topographical map of Literature Nonsense would be represented by a small and sparsely settled country, neglected by the average tourist, but affording keen delight to the few enlightened travellers who sojourn within its borders. It is a field which has been neglected by anthologists and essayists; one of its few serious recognitions being in a certain "Treatise of Figurative Language," which says: "Nonsense; shall we dignify that with a place on our list? Assuredly will vote for doing so every one who hath at all duly noticed what admirable and wise uses it can be, and often is, put to, though never before in rhetoric has it been so highly honored. How deeply does clever or quaint nonsense abide in the memory, and for how many a decade-from earliest youth to age's most venerable years."
A Nonsense Anthology
Author: Nonsense Anthology
Author: Carolyn WellsThe Book of Nonsense
Author: Paul JenningsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nonsense literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Everyman Book of Nonsense Verse
Author: Louise GuinnessPublisher: Everyman's Library CHILDREN'S CLASSICS
ISBN: 9781857155143
Category : Children's poetry, American
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Wonderful collection of nonsense verse, from Chesterton to Dahl, Lear to Carroll.With beautitul, original illustrations, both full colour and black & white.
A Nonsense Anthology
Author: Carolyn WellsPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387327447
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Nonsense Books
Author: Edward LearPublisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
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.