Edward Lear: Complete Poetical Works

by Edward Lear

Famed for his nonsense poem ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’, Edward Lear developed a unique literary nonsense technique in both limericks and prose, which he illustrated with his own hilarious artwork. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete poetical works of Edward Lear, with all the original illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Lear's life and works
* Concise introductions to the poetry books
* All the original poetry books and all illustrated with the original illustrations
* Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Rare poems posthumously published, not available in other collections
* Excellent formatting of the poems
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry
* Easily locate the poems you want to read
* Includes a special section on Lear's artworks - explore the artist’s naturalist and landscape works
* Features a brief biography
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

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CONTENTS:

The Poetry Collections
A BOOK OF NONSENSE
NONSENSE SONGS, STORIES, BOTANY AND ALPHABETS
MORE NONSENSE, PICTURES, RHYMES, BOTANY, ETC.
LAUGHABLE LYRICS, A FOURTH BOOK OF NONSENSE POEMS, SONGS, BOTANY, MUSIC, ETC.
NONSENSE SONGS AND STORIES
POSTHUMOUSLY PUBLISHED WORKS

The Poems
LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

Selected Paintings
LIST OF ARTWORKS

The Biography
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY by Franklin Lushington

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Genres: Poetry

620 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 14, 2014

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

[Bill Ramsell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Complete nonsense and utterly delightful.