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Nonsense Songs The Owl and the Pussycat The Duck and the Kangaroo The Daddy Long-Legs and the Fly The Jumblies The Nutcrackers and the Sugar-Tongs Calico Pie Mr. and Mrs. Spikky Sparrow The Broom, the Shovel, the Poker and the Tongs The Table and the Chair. Nonsense Stories The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Round the World
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- Alphabetical List of The Songs
Alphabetical list of the songs Lear published two collections of songs and stories, quite different in style from the limericks books: 1. Nonsense Songs, Stories Botany and Alphabets, 1871 2. Laughable Lyrics. A Fourth Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany Music, &c, 1877 More songs were published posthumously in the 1912 collection of his Nonsense...
Lear only wrote two short stories in the traditional illustrated form: 1. The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Round the World 2. The History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple both published in his 1871 Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets. These are much more strictly nonsensical than the songs. He seems to have p...
Aug 30, 2008 · Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Mar 7, 2019 · The music of literary maverick Edward Lear will be brought to life for the first time in almost 100 years, thanks to an academic at the University of St Andrews. Edward Lear (1812 to 1888) is best known as a nonsense poet and author of The Owl and the Pussy-cat and The Jumblies.
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Lear’s nonsense songs. Lear often refers to his poems as ‘nonsense songs’: he does not distinguish poetry from sung verse. For example, ‘The Quangle Wangle’s Hat’ is ‘an absurd poem or song’. In May 1870 his publisher sent proofs of the ‘Pussey Cat, Kangaroo, and Floppy Fly songs’.
Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned today primarily for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularised.
These pages explore his musical world. You can find here all the songs that Lear published, but also the music that he performed, songs he re-worded, and pieces to which we know he enjoyed listening.
