The Resource Mr Lear : a life of art and nonsense, Jenny Uglow
Mr Lear : a life of art and nonsense, Jenny Uglow
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- viii, 598 pages
- Note
- Some text and illustrations on end-papers
- Isbn
- 9780571269549
- Label
- Mr Lear : a life of art and nonsense
- Title
- Mr Lear
- Title remainder
- a life of art and nonsense
- Statement of responsibility
- Jenny Uglow
- Title variation
- Mister Lear
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Biography type
- individual biography
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Uglow, Jennifer S
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Lear, Edward
- Authors, English
- Artists
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Mr Lear : a life of art and nonsense, Jenny Uglow
- Note
- Some text and illustrations on end-papers
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliography (pages 530-533) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 2138522
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- viii, 598 pages
- Isbn
- 9780571269549
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some colour)
- Label
- Mr Lear : a life of art and nonsense, Jenny Uglow
- Note
- Some text and illustrations on end-papers
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliography (pages 530-533) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 2138522
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- viii, 598 pages
- Isbn
- 9780571269549
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some colour)
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