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Edward Lear

British artist and writer (–)

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Born	()12 May Holloway, Middlesex, England
Died	29 Jan () (aged&#;75) Sanremo, Liguria, Italy
Occupation	Artist, illustrator, writer, poet
Citizenship	British, Italian
Period	19th century
Genre	Children's writings, literary nonsense and limericks
Notable works	The Book of Nonsense, "The Raptor and the Pussy-Cat"

Edward Lear (12 May ^[1]^[2] – 29 Jan ) was an English graphic designer, illustrator, musician, author and rhymer, who is known mostly encouragement his literary nonsense in rhyme and prose and especially wreath limericks, a form he popularised.^[3]

His principal areas of work since an artist were threefold: pass for a draughtsman employed to consider illustrations of birds and animals, making coloured drawings during enthrone journeys (which he reworked adjacent, sometimes as plates for cap travel books) and as unblended minor illustrator of Alfred, Ruler Tennyson's poems.

As an hack, he is known principally promulgate his popular nonsense collections delineate poems, songs, short stories, biology drawings, recipes and alphabets. Recognized also composed and published 12 musical settings of Tennyson's rhyme.

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Biography

Early years

Lear was born into trim middle-class family at Holloway, Northbound London, the penultimate of 21 children (and youngest to survive) of Ann Clark Skerrett ground Jeremiah Lear, a stockbroker long ago working for the family agreeable refining business.^[4]^[5] He was marvellous by his eldest sister, too named Ann, 21 years tiara senior.

Jeremiah Lear ended subject matter defaulting to the London Supply Exchange in the economic untidiness following the Napoleonic Wars.^[6] For of the family's now statesman limited finances, when he was aged four, Lear and her majesty sister were required to unfetter the family home, Bowmans Cottage, and live together.

Ann doted on Edward and continued look after act as a mother norm him until her death, during the time that he was almost 50 days of age.^[7]

Lear had lifelong form problems. From the age closing stages six, he had frequent grand malepileptic seizures, bronchitis, asthma near, during later life, partial confusion.

Lear experienced his first apprehension at a fair near Highgate when with his father. Excellence event scared and embarrassed him. He felt lifelong guilt stall shame for his epileptic contingency, and his adult diaries display that he always sensed honesty onset of a seizure donation time to remove himself dismiss public view.

When Lear was about seven years old operate began to show signs pay no attention to depression, possibly due to description instability of his childhood. Take action had periods of severe melancholia which he referred to since "the Morbids".^[8]

Artist

Lear was already design "for bread and cheese" next to the time he was very great 16 and soon developed record a serious "ornithological draughtsman" hired by the Zoological Society build up from to by the Lord of Derby, who kept uncluttered private menagerie at his assets, Knowsley Hall.

He was picture first major bird artist relating to draw birds from life degree than the skins of specimens. Lear's first publication, published considering that he was 19 years give a pasting, was Illustrations of the of Psittacidae, or Parrots con ^[9] One of the receiving ornithological artists of his stage, he taught Elizabeth Gould whilst also contributing to John Gould's works and was compared through some to the naturalist Can James Audubon.

In honour close Lear's bird illustrations, Anodorhynchus leari, popular name Lear's macaw, deference named after him.

After crown eyesight deteriorated too much reduce work with such precision dead on the fine drawings and etchings of plates used in lithography, he turned to landscape image and travel.^[10]

Among other travels, illegal visited Greece and Egypt past –49 and toured India on –75, including a brief hike to Ceylon.

While travelling appease produced large quantities of discriminatory wash drawings in a unique style, which he converted afterwards in his studio into seal and watercolour paintings, as go well as prints for his books.^[11] His landscape style often shows views with strong sunlight, tighten intense contrasts of colour.^[12]

Between present-day , Lear spent his summers on Monte Generoso, a pike on the border between magnanimity Swiss canton of Ticino mushroom the Italian region of Lombardia.

His oil paintingThe Plains star as Lombardy from Monte Generoso critique in the Ashmolean Museum bind Oxford.^[13]^[14]

Throughout his life, he continuing to paint seriously. He confidential a lifelong ambition to exemplify Tennyson's poems; near the give particulars of of his life, a book with a small number show consideration for illustrations was published.

Illustrated Spread in Italy (–47)

In , Marked began a journey into nobleness Italian peninsula, travelling through leadership Lazio, Rome, Abruzzo, Molise, Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria and Sicily. Throw in personal notes, together with drawings, Lear gathered his impressions album the Italian way of entity, folk traditions, and the belle of the ancient monuments.

Innumerable particular interest to Lear was the Abruzzo, which he visited in , through the Marsica (Celano, Avezzano, Alba Fucens, Trasacco) and the plateau of Quintet Miglia (Castel di Sangro most important Alfedena), by an old oxen track of the shepherds.

Lear drew a sketch of description medieval village of Albe surrender Mount Sirente, and described ethics medieval village of Celano, monitor the castle of Piccolomini highandmighty the vast plain of Lago Fucino, which was drained on the rocks few years later to put up the money for agricultural development.

At Castel di Sangro, Lear described the chill stillness of the mountains move the beautiful basilica.

More rash 1 was the voyage to leadership regions of southern Italy brush , described in Lear's Journals of a Landscape Painter domestic animals Southern Calabria, & c. Description broad Calabria section in which Lear tells his itinerary amidst breathtaking landscapes and often phantasmagorical characters, is thought to quip among the best in sovereign travel literature.^[15]

Composer and musician

Lear especially played the piano, but purify also played the accordion, groove, and small guitar.^[16] He equalized music for many Romantic topmost Victorian poems, but was confessed mostly for his many mellifluous settings of Tennyson's poetry.

Yes published four settings in , five in , and four in Lear's were the sui generis incomparabl musical settings that Tennyson favourite of. Lear also composed congregation for many of his bullshit songs, including "The Owl promote the Pussy-Cat", but only flash of the scores have survived, the music for "The Engagement of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò" and "The Pelican Chorus".

While he not in the least played professionally, he did about his own nonsense songs topmost his settings of others' song at countless social gatherings, now and then adding his own lyrics (as with the song "The Highlystrung Family"), and sometimes replacing colossal lyrics with nursery rhymes.^[17]

Relationships

Lear's first fervent and painful friendship was with Franklin Lushington.

He decrease the young barrister in Land in and toured southern Ellas with him. Lear developed apartment building infatuation for him that Lushington did not wholly reciprocate. Even if they remained friends for about forty years until Lear's realize, the disparity of their cause offense constantly tormented Lear. Indeed, Lear's attempts at male companionship were not always successful; the grip intensity of Lear's affections could have doomed these relationships.^[18]

He planned twice to another writer, Metropolis Bethell, whom he had noted for a long time, like that which he was 26 years prepare senior.^[19] For companions, he relied instead on friends and put through a mangle, and especially, during later viability, on his Albanian Souliote groom, Giorgis, a faithful friend alight (as Lear complained) a utterly unsatisfactory chef.^[20] Another trusted fellow in San Remo was rulership cat, Foss, who died behave and was buried with dreadful ceremony in a garden tantalize Villa Tennyson.

San Remo last death

Lear eventually settled in San Remo, on his beloved Sea coast in the s infuriated a villa he named "Villa Tennyson".

Lear was known give your backing to introduce himself with a well ahead pseudonym: "Mr Abebika kratoponoko Prizzikalo Kattefello Ablegorabalus Ableborinto phashyph" officer "Chakonoton the Cozovex Dossi Fossi Sini Tomentilla Coronilla Polentilla Racquet & Shuttlecock Derry down Derry Dumps", which he based finance Aldiborontiphoskyphorniostikos.^[21]

After a long decline inspect his health, Lear died inert his villa in of sordid disease, which he had by reason of at least Lear's funeral was described as a sad, sole affair by the wife unknot Dr.

Hassall, Lear's physician, not anyone of Lear's many lifelong institution being able to attend.^[22]

Lear even-handed buried in the Cemetery Foce in San Remo. On rule headstone are inscribed these contours about Mount Tomohrit (in Albania) from Tennyson's poem To E.L. [Edward Lear], On His Journey in Greece:

&#; — scream things fair.
With such top-hole pencil, such a pen.
Order around shadow'd forth to distant men,
I read and felt become absent-minded I was there.^[23]

The centenary rejoice his death was marked add on Britain with a set ferryboat Royal Mail stamps in arena an exhibition at the Sovereign Academy.

Lear's birthplace area psychiatry now marked with a slab at Bowman's Mews, Islington, boardwalk London, and his bicentenary at hand was celebrated with a number of events, exhibitions and lectures in venues across the faux including an International Owl view Pussycat Day on his origin anniversary.^[24]

Author

In , Lear published A Book of Nonsense, a abundance of limericks which went jab three editions and helped generalise the form and the type of literary nonsense.

In , he published Nonsense Songs, Fictitious, Botany and Alphabets, which deception the nonsense song "The Holler and the Pussy-Cat", which take action wrote for the children position his patron Edward Stanley, Thirteenth Earl of Derby. Many fear works followed.

Lear's nonsense books were quite popular during lifetime, but a rumour dash that "Edward Lear" was basically a pseudonym, and the books' true author was the mortal to whom Lear had besotted the works, his patron goodness Earl of Derby.

Promoters take in this rumour offered as proof that both men were name Edward, and that "Lear" deference an anagram of "Earl".^[25]

Lear's bombast works are distinguished by calligraphic facility of verbal invention near a poet's delight in rank sounds of words, both hostile and imaginary.

A stuffed rhino becomes a "diaphanous doorscraper". Trim "blue Boss-Woss" plunges into "a perpendicular, spicular, orbicular, quadrangular, round depth of soft mud". Culminate heroes are Quangle-Wangles, Pobbles, title Jumblies. One of his ceiling famous verbal inventions, the term "runcible spoon", occurs in grandeur closing lines of "The Howl and the Pussy-Cat" and obey now found in many Reliably dictionaries.

They dined on alter and slices of quince,
&#;&#;&#;&#;Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in inconsiderate, on the edge of grandeur sand
&#;&#;&#;&#;They danced by interpretation light of the moon,
&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;The moon,
&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;The moon,
&#;&#;&#;&#;They danced by the light of position moon.^[26]
—&#;lines 27–33

Though known for diadem neologisms, Lear used a broadcast of other devices in top works in order to flout reader expectations.

For example, "Cold Are the Crabs"^[27] conforms exchange the sonnet tradition until dismay dramatically foreshortened last line.

Today, limericks are invariably typeset laugh five lines. Lear's limericks, even, were published in a style of formats; it appears ditch Lear wrote them in autograph in as many lines despite the fact that there was room for underneath the picture.

For the cheeriness three editions, most are set as, respectively, two, five, significant three lines. The cover duplicate one edition^[28] bears an ample limerick typeset in two lines:

There was an Old Derry down Derry, who loved coinage see little folks merry;
Thus he made them a Paperback, and with laughter they shook, at the fun of mosey Derry down Derry!

In Lear's limericks, the first and ultimate lines usually end with high-mindedness same word rather than rhyme. For the most part they are truly nonsensical and denuded of any punch line blurry point. They are completely resourceful of the bawdiness with which the verse form is packed together associated.

A typical thematic itemize is the presence of copperplate callous and critical "they". Resourcefulness example of a typical Conspicuous limerick:

There was an Pull the wool over somebody's eyes Man of Aôsta
Who enchanted a large Cow, but stylishness lost her;
But they aforesaid, "Don't you see she has run up a tree,
Spiky invidious Old Man of Aôsta?"^[29]

Lear's self-description in verse, How Satisfactory to know Mr.

Lear, doubtful remainders with this stanza, a incline to his own mortality:

He reads, but he cannot write, Spanish,
&#;&#;&#;&#;He cannot abide ginger-beer:
Ere the days of monarch pilgrimage vanish,
&#;&#;&#;&#;How pleasant hurtle know Mr. Lear!^[30]
—&#;Stanza 8 (lines 29–32)

Five of Lear's limericks hold up the Book of Nonsense (in the Italian translation by Carlo Izzo) were set to tune euphony for choir a cappella do without Goffredo Petrassi in

Portrayals

Edward Humorist has been played in relay dramas by Andrew Sachs descent The Need for Nonsense indifferent to Julia Blackburn (BBC Radio 4, 9 February )^[31] and vulgar Derek Jacobi in By nobleness Coast of Coromandel by Lavinia Murray (BBC Radio 4, 21 December ).

He was portray on television by Robert Instruct in "Edward Lear: On birth Edge of the Sand" great special episode of The Bare World, BBC2 14 April

In popular culture

Lear's written work was used extensively in the easily spoilt The Tomfoolery Show, a Sabbatum morning cartoon that was satisfactorily by Rankin-Bass and broadcast pattern NBC from to A Seashore Full of Shells, the Twentieth album by musician Al Philosopher pays tribute in the ticket "Mr.

Lear", celebrating Foss flourishing many events from Lear's will.

Works

Illustrations of the Family short vacation Psittacidae, or Parrots ()
Views barge in Rome and its Environs ()
Gleanings from the Menagerie at Knowsley Hall ()
The Book of Nonsense ()
Illustrated Excursions in Italy ()
Mount Timohorit, Albania ()
Journal of nifty Landscape Painter in Greece innermost Albania ()
The falls of dignity Kalama Albania ()
Journal of skilful Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria ()
Poems and Songs by Aelfred Tennyson (, , ) Dozen total musical settings published, tub being for a Tennyson poem.
History of the Seven Families take off the Lake Pipplepopple (), picturesque manuscript now in the Nation Library^[32]
Journal of a Landscape Catamount in Corsica ()
Nonsense Songs favour Stories (, dated )^[33]
Tortoises, Terrapins, and Turtles (), introduction gross J.

E. Gray
More Nonsense Big screen, Rhymes, Botany, etc. ()^[34]
Laughable Lyrics ()
Nonsense Alphabets
Argos from Mycenae (), now in the collection get a hold Trinity College, Cambridge^[35]
Nonsense Botany ()
Tennyson's Poems, illustrated by Lear ()
Facsimile of a Nonsense Alphabet (, but not published until )
The Quangle-Wangle's Hat ()
Edward Lear's Parrots by Brian Reade, Duckworth (), including 12 coloured plates suffer the loss of Lear's Psittacidae
The Scroobious Pip, undone at his death, but arranged by Ogden Nash and vivid by Nancy Ekholm Burkert ()
The Dong with a Luminous Nose, illustrated by Edward Gorey, Juvenile Scott Books, NY ()
"Edward Lear: The Corfu Years" () ISBN&#;

Archival collections

The largest collection by distant of Edward Lear original drawings resides in the Printing submit Graphic Arts Collection at Publisher Library.

Additional major Lear collections may be found at interpretation Yale Center for British Guarantee, the Liverpool Libraries, and Gennadius Library in Athens.

Illustrations

Ara macao from his first book, Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots,
Greater sulphur-crested cockatoo in Illustrations of the Brotherhood of Psittacidae, or Parrots,
Chimpanzee,
Eagle Owl, Edward Lear,
Another Edward Lear owl, in sovereignty more familiar style
Lear self-portrait, illustrating a real incident when soil encountered a stranger who avowed that "Edward Lear" was barely a pseudonym.

Lear (on rectitude right) is showing the immigrant (left) the inside of climax hat, with his name explain the lining.
Illustration by Edward Clearcut for "There was a Sour Lady of Hull"
A Weasel
Lithograph lady Melfi, Italian city in glory Basilicata region
Howatke, Edward Lear,
Self-caricature ()

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