The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense,9780142002278

The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense

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ISBN13: 9780142002278
ISBN10: 0142002275
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-10-29
Publisher(s): Penguin Books
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Summary

The absurd and whimsical verses of Edward Lear-such as "The Owl and the Pussy-cat," "The Jumblies," "The Scroobious Pip," and countless limericks-have enchanted generations of children and adults alike. This delightful volume, the most comprehensive collection ever of his work, presents all of Lear's verse and other nonsense writings, including stories, letters, and illustrated alphabets, as well as previously unpublished material, line drawings, and a fascinating introduction by scholar Vivien Noakes.

Author Biography

Edward Lear (1812-1888) was privately trained as an illustrator and painter, later giving lessons to Queen Victoria and having pictures accepted by the Royal Academy. He published his first book of nonsense poetry in 1846.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements xi
List of Abbreviations
xv
`Edward Lear' xviii
W. H. Auden
Introduction xix
Table of Dates
xxxv
Further Reading xlv
A Note on the Texts xlviii
The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense
Eclogue: Vide Collins `Hassan -- or the Camel Driver'
3(2)
To Miss Lear on her Birthday
5(4)
The Shady Side of Sunnyside
9(1)
Journal
10(4)
Turkey Discipline
14(1)
`When the light dies away on a calm summer's eve'
15(1)
`From the pale and the deep'
15(1)
Peppering Roads
16(2)
Miss Fraser's Album
18(1)
Ruins of the Temple of Jupiter Aegina, Greece
19(1)
The Bride's Farewell
20(2)
Ruby
22(1)
Miss Maniac
23(17)
`I slept, and back to my early days'
40(3)
Resignation
43(1)
`I've just seen Mrs Hopkins -- and read her the lines'
44(1)
Ode to the little China Man
44(1)
Peppering Bell
45(1)
Letter to Harry Hinde
46(2)
Scrawl
48(1)
Letter to Fanny Jane Dolly Coombe
49(2)
`Oh! Pan!'
51(1)
Letter to George Coombe
52(1)
The Nervous Family
53(1)
The Nervous Family: Alternative version
54(2)
`The gloom that winter casts'
56(1)
`My dear Mrs Gale -- from my leaving the cradle'
56(1)
Portraites of the inditchenous beestes of New Olland
57(1)
`My Sweet Home is no longer mine'
58(1)
[Illustrations for `Kathleen O'More']
59(3)
Scene in the Campagna of Rome
62(1)
[Lear's adventures on horseback]
63(8)
[Limericks for the 1846 and 1855 editions of A Book of Nonsense]
71(37)
[Other early limericks]
108(12)
The Hens of Oripo
120(2)
`A was an Ant'
122(13)
`Ribands and pigs'
135(14)
Ye poppular author & traveller in Albania & Calabria, keepinge his feete warme
149(1)
[Lear at the Royal Academy Schools]
150(1)
`There was an old person of Ramleh'
151(1)
`O! Mimber for the County Louth'
151(2)
`Washing my rose-coloured flesh and brushing my beard with a hairbrush'
153(2)
From a letter to George Grove
155(1)
`But ah! (the Landscape painter said,)'
156(1)
[Additional limericks for the 1861 edition of A Book of Nonsense]
157(22)
`General appearance of a distinguished Landscapepainter'
179(1)
Eggstracts from the Roehampton Chronicle
180(3)
Letter to Ruth Decie
183(1)
`There was an old person of Paxo'
184(1)
`She sits upon her Bulbul'
184(1)
`O Digby my dear'
185(1)
`There was an old man with a Book'
185(1)
Letters to Evelyn Baring
186(2)
Letter to Nora Decie
188(1)
[Lear's adventures in Crete]
189(2)
Letters to Anna Duncan and Lady Duncan
191(2)
The History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple
193(14)
The Duck and the Kangaroo
207(3)
`Gozo my child is the isle of Calypso'
210(1)
Stratford Place Gazette
211(1)
[Three miscellaneous limericks]
212(2)
The Adventures of Mr Lear & the Polly [& the] Pusseybite on their way to the Ritertitle Mountains
214(5)
`O Thuthan Thmith! Thweet Thuthan Thmith!'
219(1)
The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Round the World
220(13)
Growling Eclogue
233(5)
The Owl and the Pussy-cat
238(2)
[Mrs Blue Dickey-bird]
240(1)
`Some people their attention Fixes'
240(1)
The Broom, the Shovel, the Poker, and the Tongs
241(2)
`There was an old man who said - ``Hum!'
243(1)
Calico Pie
244(2)
The Daddy Long-legs and the Fly
246(3)
[Nonsense Cookery]
249(2)
[Nonsense Botany - I]
251(2)
The Jumblies
253(3)
`The Absolutely Abstemious Ass'
256(14)
`The Uncareful Cow, who walked about'
270(1)
[Creatures playing chequers]
271(1)
The Nutcrackers and the Sugar-tongs
272(2)
Mr and Mrs Spikky Sparrow
274(3)
The Table and the Chair
277(2)
`A was once an apple-pie'
279(26)
`A was an Area Arch'
305(14)
[Mr Lear receives a letter from Marianne North]
319(2)
Mr and Mrs Discobbolos
321(3)
The Courtship of the Youghy-Bonghy-Bo
324(4)
[Limericks published in More Nonsense]
328(50)
[Extra limericks prepared for More Nonsense]
378(5)
[Nonsense Botany - 2]
383(3)
`Cold are the crabs that crawl on yonder hill'
386(1)
The Scroobious Pip
387(4)
The Quangle Wangle's Hat
391(2)
[Receipt for George Scrivens, Esq.]
393(1)
`Papa once went to Greece'
394(1)
The Story of the Pobble, who has no toes, and the Princess Bink
394(3)
The Pobble who has no Toes
397(2)
The Akond of Swat
399(3)
`The Attalik Ghazee'
402(1)
[Indian limericks]
402(2)
`O! Chichester, my Carlingford!'
404(1)
The Cummerbund
405(2)
Letter to Lady Wyatt
407(1)
Poona Observer
408(1)
The New Vestments
409(3)
The Pelican Chorus
412(3)
The Two Old Bachelors
415(2)
[Nonsense Botany - 3]
417(3)
`A tumbled down, and hurt his Arm'
420(2)
The Dong with a Luminous Nose
422(3)
`Finale Marina! If ever you'd seen her!'
425(1)
In medio Tutorissimus ibis
425(2)
`O dear! how disgusting is life!'
427(1)
`How pleasant to know Mr Lear!'
428(2)
Mr and Mrs Discobbolos: Second Part
430(2)
`O Brother Chicken! Sister Chick!'
432(1)
`Dear Sir, Though many checks prevent'
433(1)
Remminissenciz of Orgust 14 Aitnundrednaity
433(1)
`I am awfull aged in apierance lately'
434(1)
`There was an old man with a ribbon'
434(1)
Letter to Mrs Stuart Wortley [The Moon Journey]
435(3)
[Chichester Fortescue is appointed Lord Privy Seal]
438(1)
[Nonsense Trees]
439(5)
`The Octopods and Reptiles'
444(1)
[The Heraldic Blazons of Foss the Cat]
444(4)
`Mrs Jaypher found a wafer'
448(1)
From a letter to the Hon. Mrs Augusta Parker
449(1)
[The Later History of the Owl and the Pussy-cat]
450(2)
`When ``grand old men'' persist in folly'
452(1)
`He lived at Dingle Bank -- he did'
452(1)
`And this is certain; if so be'
453(1)
Eggstrax from The Maloja Gazette
454(1)
`When leaving this beautiful blessed Brianza'
455(1)
Some Incidents in the Life of my Uncle Arly
456(2)
`He only said, ``I'm very weary'
458(1)
`I must stop now'
458(1)
`I think human nature is pretty much the same all along'
458(9)
Appendix
Examples of Lear's Nonsense Similes
461(4)
Work Erroneously Attributed to Lear
465(2)
Notes 467(84)
Index of Titles 551(4)
Index of First Lines 555(10)
Subject Index 565

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