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Mr. Lear - Jenny Uglow

By Jenny Uglow

Release Date: 2018-04-17

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

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Discover the vivid life of Edward Lear, the beloved poet, artist, and "nonsense" creator, in this enchanting biography by award-winning author Jenny Uglow.

Edward Lear, the renowned English artist, musician, author, and poet, lived a 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. Lear is still loved for his "nonsenses," from joyous limericks to great love poems like "The Owl and the P***y Cat" and "The Dong with a Luminous Nose," and he is famous, too, for his brilliant natural history paintings, landscapes, and travel writing.

Though Lear belongs solidly to the age of Darwin and Dickensā€”he gave Queen Victoria drawing lessons, and his many friends included Tennyson and the Pre-Raphaelite paintersā€”his genius for the absurd and his dazzling wordplay make him a very modern spirit. 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 desiresā€”an exile of the heart.

Mr. Lear - Jenny Uglow

By Jenny Uglow

Release Date: 2018-04-17

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

(0 ratings)
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Discover the vivid life of Edward Lear, the beloved poet, artist, and "nonsense" creator, in this enchanting biography by award-winning author Jenny Uglow.

Edward Lear, the renowned English artist, musician, author, and poet, lived a 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. Lear is still loved for his "nonsenses," from joyous limericks to great love poems like "The Owl and the P***y Cat" and "The Dong with a Luminous Nose," and he is famous, too, for his brilliant natural history paintings, landscapes, and travel writing.

Though Lear belongs solidly to the age of Darwin and Dickensā€”he gave Queen Victoria drawing lessons, and his many friends included Tennyson and the Pre-Raphaelite paintersā€”his genius for the absurd and his dazzling wordplay make him a very modern spirit. 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 desiresā€”an exile of the heart.

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