Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense - 3063

Name: Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense - 3063
Brand: Dream Books Co.
SKU: DBV.0571269559.G
Price: 8.06 USD
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Acclaimed historian Jenny Uglow brings us a fascinating and beautifully illustrated biography of Edward Lear, shortlisted for Waterstone’s Book of the Year, and a Telegraph and Spectator Book of the Year. A scrupulously forensic literary appreciation of Edward Lear and his 'nonsenses' by one of our most cherished historians – without losing any sense of fun. Edward Lear’s poems follow and break the rules. They abide by the logic of syntax, the linking of rhyme and the dance of rhythm, and these "nonsenses" are full of joy – yet set against darkness. Where do these human-like animals and birds and these odd adventures – some gentle, some violent, some musical, some wild – come from? His many drawings that accompany his verse are almost hyper-real, as if he wants to free the creatures from the page. They exist nowhere else in literature, springing only from Lear’s imagination. Lear lived all his life on the borders of rules and structures, of disciplines and desires. He vowed to ignore politics yet trembled with passionate sympathies. He depended on patrons and moved in establishment circles, yet he never belonged among them and mocked imperial attitudes. He loved men yet dreamed of marriage – but remained, it seems, celibate, wrapped in himself. Even in his family he was marginal, at once accepted and rejected. Surrounded by friends, he was alone. If we follow him across land and sea – to Italy, Greece and Albania, to The Levant and Egypt and India – and to the borderlands of spirit and self, art and desire, can we see, in the end, if the nonsense makes sense? This is what Jenny Uglow has set sail to find out.
ASIN: 0571269559
VSKU: DBV.0571269559.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Uglow, Jenny
Binding: Paperback

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