Edward Lear (Londres, 1812-San Remo, 1888) fue el último de veintiún hermanos, desde la adolescencia tuvo que ganarse la vida como ilustrador de libros de botánica, zoología y tipografía en diversos lugares, incluido...
Sus dibujos y textos, los que presentamos en este volumen y que conforman la parte más importante y personal de su obra, representan por sí mismos toda una culminación: una pasión por el juego y un derroche de ingenio casi sin...
Quan Edward Lear era a casa de Lord Stanley, que lhavia 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 poemes, acompanyats...
Desde que nacen, los versos aspiran a vivir su propia vida independiente de quien los inventó. Basta que alguien los diga o copie con su caligrafía para que sean suyos. Éstos que hemos recogido en la calle y que hemos convertido en...
Lear's nonsense books were quite popular during his lifetime, but a rumor developed that "Edward Lear" was merely a pseudonym, and the books' true author was the man to whom Lear had dedicated the works, his patron the Earl of Derby....
Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection...
The Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear In 1846 Lear published A Book of Nonsense, a volume of limericks that went through three editions and helped popularize the form and the genre of literary nonsense. In 1871 he published Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany...
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.
Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection...
Edward Learâs much celebrated book of nonsense is here reproduced with all the original pictures and verse and two autobiographical letters by the author. Children and adults alike will delight in the Limerickâs that...
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.Learâs nonsense works are distinguished by a facility...
âNonsense is the breath of my nostrilsâ, wrote Edward Lear (1812-88), and this collection demonstrates the wonderfully varied ways in which he pursued his philosophy of life. He created an extraordinary world filled...