Mr. Lear by Jenny Uglow
A sparkling biography of the poet and artist Edward Lear by the award-winning biographer Jenny Uglow
Edward Lear, the renowned English artist, musician, author, and poet, lived a vivid, 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. He is still loved for his nonsenses, from startling, joyous limericks to great love poems like The Owl and the Pussy Cat and The Dong with a Luminous Nose, and he is famous, too, for his brilliant natural history paintings, landscapes, and travel writing. But although Lear belongs solidly to the age of Darwin and Dickens--he gave Queen Victoria drawing lessons, and his many friends included Tennyson and the Pre-Raphaelite painters--his genius for the absurd and his dazzling wordplay make him a very modern spirit. He speaks to us today.
Lear was a man of great simplicity and charm--children adored him--yet his humor masked epilepsy, depression, and loneliness. 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 desires--an exile of the heart.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780374113339 |
| ISBN 10 | 0374113335 |
| Title | Mr. Lear |
| Author | Jenny Uglow |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Year published | 2018-04-17 |
| Number of pages | 608 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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