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Mr Lear : a life of art and nonsense
- Title
- Mr Lear : a life of art and nonsense / Jenny Uglow.
- Author
- Uglow, Jenny, 1947-
- Publication
- London : Faber & Faber, 2017.
- ©2017
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 18-1712 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- viii, 598 pages : illustrations (some colour); 24 cm
- Summary
- "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."--Publisher's description.
- Alternative Title
- Mister Lear
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- Note
- Some text and illustrations on lining papers.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 530-582) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-1712
- ISBN
- 9780571269549
- 0571269540
- OCLC
- 975018611
- Author
- Uglow, Jenny, 1947- author.
- Title
- Mr Lear : a life of art and nonsense / Jenny Uglow.
- Publisher
- London : Faber & Faber, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 530-582) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-1712