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    Nonsense Poems
    Nonsense Poems
    Nonsense Poems
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    Nonsense Poems

    By Edward Lear

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    There was an Old Man in a tree,
    Who was horribly bored by a Bee;
    When they said, "Does it buzz?" He replied, "Yes, it does!
    It’s a regular brute of a Bee."
    Generations of children and adults have delighted in the whimsical poems of Edward Lear (1812-88). And, despite his achievements as a noted English landscape painter and illustrator of animal life, Lear today is best known for his delightful volumes of nonsense verse. This work spanned several decades — from the first charming lines he wrote in the 1830s for the children of the Earl of Derby to his last collection of poems, published in 1877.
    This volume contains a rich sampling of Lear’s inspired nonsense, including more than 90 delightful limericks as well as a choice selection of longer poems along with the amusing illustrations he drew for each. Among these are such classics as "The Owl and the Pussy-cat," and "The Jumblies" as well as a number of lesser-known but equally charming selections: "Calico Pie," "The Duck and the Kangaroo," "Incidents in the Life of My Uncle Arly," "The Daddy Long-legs and the Fly," "The Broom, the Shovel, The Poker, and the Tongs," "Mr. and Mrs. Spikky Spider" and "The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bó."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateDec 27, 2012
    ISBN9780486310619
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      Nonsense Poems - Edward Lear

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      DOVER CHILDREN’S THRIFT CLASSICS

      EDITOR OF THIS VOLUME: CANDACE WARD

      Copyright

      Copyright © 1994 by Dover Publications, Inc.

      All rights reserved.

      Bibliographical Note

      Nonsense Poems is a new collection of nonsense verse written and illustrated by Edward Lear, first published by Dover Publications, Inc. in 1994. These poems were originally published in A Book of Nonsense (1846), Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets (1871), More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc. (1872), Laughable Lyrics, A Fourth Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Music, etc. (1877) and Nonsense Songs and Stories (1895).

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Lear, Edward, 1812–1888.

      Nonsense poems / Edward Lear.

      p. cm.—(Dover children’s thrift classics)

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

      9780486310619

      1. Children’s poetry, English. 2. Nonsense verses, English.

      [1. Nonsense verses. 2. English poetry.] I. Title. II. Series.

      PR4879.L2N59 1994

      821’.8—dc20

      93–39193

      CIP

      AC

      Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation

      28031402

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      Note

      EDWARD LEAR was born on May 12, 1812, the twentieth of twenty-one children. He was a strange-looking child, shortsighted and with a very large nose, who suffered from asthma, bronchitis and epilepsy. Perhaps his ill health contributed to his withdrawn character, but for whatever reason, Lear spent much of his childhood writing poetry, sketching and reading books on natural history.

      In 1832 Lear was commissioned by Lord Stanley, later 13th Earl of Derby, to illustrate a book on his private menagerie of over 300 animals and 1700 birds. For the next five years, Lear lived with his patron’s family, endearing himself to the household’s many children with his nonsensical stories and songs. The result of these spontaneous entertainments was Lear’s first Book of Nonsense, published anonymously in 1846. Although Lear

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