Lear's Nonsense Omnibus: With All the Original Pictures, Verses, and Stories

edward lear e. strachey

A collection of Lear's nonsense songs, stories, rhymes, alphabets, and pictures taken from "Nonsense Songs and Stories, " "Nonsense Botany, " and "Nonsense Alphabets."

Genres poetrychildrenshumorbritish literature

480 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1943

This edition

Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Published: May 5, 1987 by Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780140087765
ASIN: 0140087761
Language: English

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.