How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear: Nonsense Poems

by Edward Lear, Bohdan Butenko (Illustrator)

Presents the following nonsense verses: "How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear," "The Jumblies," "The Dong with a Luminous Nose," and "The Scroobious Pip."

Genres: Poetry

74 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised.
His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to make illustrations of birds and animals; making coloured drawings during his journeys, which he reworked later, sometimes as plates for his travel books; and as a (minor) illustrator of Alfred Tennyson's poems.
As an author, he is known principally for his popular nonsense collections of poems, songs, short stories, botanical drawings, recipes and alphabets. He also composed and published twelve musical settings of Tennyson's poetry.

Reviews

[Petergiaquinta]

There was an old man name of Lear,
Whose limericks and poems I hold dear.
My love of language and such
To this odd fellow I owe much,
That scroobious, runcilubrious Edward Lear.

[Graychin]

My son checked this one out of the library. A very pleasant introduction, well structured, with runcible biographical detail.