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Edward Lear - A Life (Paperback)
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Edward Lear - A Life (Paperback)
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Price R198
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"Children swarmed to him like settlers. He became a land." W.H.
Auden Edward Lear - beloved nonsense poet, author of such adored
poems as The Owl and the Pussycat, inventor of otherworldly
characters like Quangle Wangles and of the modern limerick; lauded
artist and illustrator - was a genius who defies classification.
Gregarious and popular, Lear had a wide circle of friends, but was
often lonely and subject to frequent bouts of depression and
debilitating epilepsy, the shame of which he struggled with all his
life. In this captivating biography, fellow poet Peter Levi renders
descriptions of Lear's sketches and watercolours (of which he
painted some 10,000 in the course of his career) and provides
incisive portraits of his classic poems, such as 'The Jumblies',
'The Owl and the Pussycat' and 'The Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo', setting them
in the wider context of traditional nursery rhymes. Lear belonged
to the great tradition of adventurous British travellers,
undertaking extensive journeys in Italy and Greece, in Albania,
Turkey, Egypt, Palestine and India and these always-eventful
journeys are related here, alongside extracts and quotations from
his letters and diaries - an essential biography for all lovers of
this remarkable British literary figure and now recognised as one
of the greatest nineteenth-century landscape painters.
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