[PDF] The Dong With A Luminous Nose eBook

Author : Jenny Uglow
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 31,94 MB
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1466828234

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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.

Author : Edward Lear
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 12,47 MB
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN :

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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.

Author : Edward Lear
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 35,22 MB
Release : 2007-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1553378288

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Edward Lear's beloved poem has charmed readers since it was first published in 1871. 4+ yrs.

Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher : Lonely Scribe
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 2004-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1905179006

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From much-quoted classics like 'The Owl and the Pussy-cat' and 'Jabberwocky' to the epic adventure 'The Hunting of the Snark', the nonsense poems of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear have a freshness and a sense of fun that still speak to children of all ages. These two masters of the absurd created characters that have entranced generation after generation: the Walrus and the Carpenter, the Dong with the Luminous Nose and the Quangle Wangle Quee are just a handful of the remarkable creatures to be found in these pages. Whether shared aloud or enjoyed on your own, these verses will continue to delight for years to come.

Author : John Ashbery
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 25,45 MB
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1480459097

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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).”

Author : John Ashbery
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 19,38 MB
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1480459127

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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.

Author : Edward Lear
Publisher : Top That! Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,26 MB
Release : 2013-03-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781782440734

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The Quangle Wangle thought he was isolated at the top of a tree but his hat attracted a wide range of visitors.

Author : Edward Lear
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 34,47 MB
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0486280314

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A new collection of nonsense verses, many beginning "There was an old man . . " or "There was a young lady . . ."