Lear felt lifelong guilt and shame for his epileptic condition. Lear experienced his first seizure at a fair near Highgate with his father. From the age of six he suffered frequent grand mal epileptic seizures, bronchitis, asthma and, during later life, partial blindness. Lear suffered from lifelong health afflictions. Ann doted on Edward and continued to act as a mother for him until her death, when he was almost 50 years of age. Jeremiah Lear ended up defaulting to the London Stock Exchange in the economic upheaval following the Napoleonic Wars owing to the family's now more limited finances, Lear and his sister were required to leave the family home, Bowmans Lodge, and live together when he was aged four. He was raised by his eldest sister, also named Ann, 21 years his senior. Lear was born into a middle-class family at Holloway, North London, the penultimate of 21 children (and youngest to survive) of Ann Clark Skerrett and Jeremiah Lear, a stockbroker formerly working for the family sugar refining business. He also composed and published twelve musical settings of Tennyson's poetry. 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, Lord Tennyson's poems.Īs an author, he is known principally for his popular nonsense collections of poems, songs, short stories, botanical drawings, recipes and alphabets. The Book of Nonsense, The Owl and the PussycatĮdward Lear ( – 29 January 1888) 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. For the benefit of those whose memories of the Nonsense Songs are not as fresh as they should be, it may be repeated that Mr.Children's literature, literary nonsense and limericks. In addition to The Jumblies, which has been adopted as the titular piece, this volume includes such prime favourites as The Owl and the Pussy Cat, The Duck and the Kangaroo, and The Dong with a Luminous Nose. Leslie Brooke, to do a similar service for a further selection from Lear’s Nonsense Songs, thus practically completing them.
London New YorkĮncouraged by the cordial reception extended by Press and Public to their issue of the Pelican Chorus and Other Nonsense Verses by Edward Lear, newly illustrated, the Publishers have requested the Artist, Mr.
The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verses by Edward Lear, Author of 'The Book of Nonsense'. THE BROOM, THE SHOVEL, THE POKER AND THE TONGS. Edward Lear The Jumblies, and Other Nonsense Verses
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