|
Books > Children's & Educational > Leisure interests, hobbies & sport > Humour & jokes
|
Buy Now
Young Reader's Series - Book of Nonsense (Containing Edward Lear's Complete Nonsense Rhymes, Songs, and Stories) (Paperback)
Loot Price: R414
Discovery Miles 4 140
|
|
|
Young Reader's Series - Book of Nonsense (Containing Edward Lear's Complete Nonsense Rhymes, Songs, and Stories) (Paperback)
 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R414
Discovery Miles 4 140
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
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. Reviews Surely the most beneficent and innocent of
all books yet produced is the "Book of Nonsense," with its
corollary carols, inimitable and refreshing, and perfect in rhythm.
I really don't know any author to whom I am half so grateful for my
idle self as Edward Lear. I shall put him first of my hundred
authors. -JOHN RUSKIN, In the "List of the Best Hundred Authors."
'A magic song-writer, with something like a reverence for the
absurd.' - Times Literary Supplement
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
