{"product_id":"the-collected-nonsense-songs-of-edward-lear-crown-classics","title":"The Collected Nonsense Songs of Edward Lear (Crown Classics)","description":"88 pp. Includes the original illustrations and an introduction by Leonard Russell. \"Edward Lear (1812 - 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, and is known now 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 illustrate birds and animals; making coloured drawings during his journeys, which he reworked later, sometimes as plates for his travel books; 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. Edward Lear's poetry and prose celebrates the joy of living, and has influenced writers and illustrators from Terry Gilliam to Spike Milligan and Ricky Gervais.Although the subject and form of his works varies greatly, all of Lear's poems can be characterized by his irreverent view of the world, and many critics view Lear's nonsense books as his way of undermining the all-pervasive orderliness and industriousness of Victorian society. However, regardless of his inspiration or impetus, the appeal of Lear's poems and illustrations has proved timeless.\"Nonsense Songs and Stories\" contains some of Lear's best-known poetry as well as stories and songs about real and imagined creatures. Poems include \"The Owl and the Pussycat\", \"The Jumblies\", \"Calico Pie\", and the stories are \"The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Round the World\" and the \"History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple\".\"","brand":"The Grey Walls Press Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32130984673350,"sku":"2306140","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2306140.jpg?v=1601697537","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/the-collected-nonsense-songs-of-edward-lear-crown-classics","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}