Edward Lear

Plumaje brillante, técnica exquisita El libro ilustrado de los loros de Edward Lear Edward Lear puede ser más conocido por sus versos absurdos, pero en sus años tempranos descolló como ilustrador de aves y reptiles. Esta coleccion de 42 litografias coloreadas a mano, tituladas originalmente Ilustraciones de la familia de los psitacidos, o loros, fue el mayor logro en su carrera relativamente breve como dibujante de historia natural, antes de que un problema ocular lo condujera a concentrarse en su escritura. En la epoca de Lear, los loros vivos eran infrecuentes y muy buscados, comprados y vendidos por fuertes sumas de dinero por magnates aficionados a la historia natural y valorados por la aristocracia europea del siglo XIX por su asombroso plumaje y su imitacion de la voz humana. Desde luego, los buenos dibujos de ellos tambien eran muy cotizados. Una de las primeras colecciones enteramente dedicadas a la especie, Loros incluye ejemplares africanos, australianos y americanos criados por eminentes ornitologos como sir William Jardine y Prideaux John Selby, que patrocinaron a Lear, inspirando y dirigiendo su trabajo. Al contrario de otros ilustradores de aves, el joven y prodigiosamente talentoso Lear (1812-1888) realizaba sus dibujos a partir de loros vivos, capturando sus expresiones y movimientos en ilustraciones notablemente vivaces. El nuevo medio de la litografia coloreada a mano facilito la intensa elegancia de la obra de Lear. Esta coleccion exquisita fue reproducida originalmente en 175 series unicas y vendida por suscripcion a los eruditos mas eminentes y los coleccionistas mas opulentos de loros vivos en Gran Bretaña. Los Psitacidos hicieron de Lear un ilustrador celebre y el profesor de dibujo de la joven reina Victoria. Con una breve introduccion zoologica y descripciones escritas de cada ave, la reimpresion perfecta de TASCHEN devuelve a la vida los loros de Lear para admiracion de todos.

Renowned author Daniel Pinkwater and best-selling poet and artist Calef Brown team up to champion the ridiculous! These endlessly fascinating and imaginative poems are as fresh and delightful today as they were when Edward Lear wrote them more than a hundred years agofrom "The Owl and the Pussycat" to "The Pobble Who Has No Toes." This charming book proves that, sometimes, there's nothing children need more than a healthy dose of nonsense!

There was an old man on the Border, Who lived in the utmost disorder; He danced with the cat, and made tea in his hat, Which vexed all the folks on the Border. Enjoy Edward Lear's hilarious, bizarre and delightfully bonkers limericks - published on their own for the first time. As found in the collected works, The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear, which has been in print since 1947 and has sold tens of thousands of copies. The nonsense works, of which the limericks were a part, were first published in the mid-1800s.

“Hasta que el surrealismo hiciera una voluntaria incursión en el terreno del inconsciente, la poesía que pretendía ser‘disparatada’no parece haber sido muy corriente. Eso no hace sino incrementar mi

Edward Lear (1812-1888) is one of the best-loved of English poets. His comic invention and unconstrained sense of the absurd have been enjoyed by generations of children, and treasured by adults conscious of the subtle melancholy that underlies the fun. This collection includes all the favourite nonsense poems. Peter Swaab sets them alongside a generous selection from Lear's six travel books (including his three Journals of a Landscape Painter), first published between 1841 and 1870, and long out of print. For the first time Lear is presented as an adventurer, not only in the fabled lands of the Jumblies and the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo, but also in nineteenth-century Albania, Greece, Calabria and Corsica, where his encounters with the people and customs of these sometimes equally strange and challenging cultures are recorded with the same acute and rueful comic imagination.

Nonsense is the breath of my nostrils', wrote Edward Lear (1812-88), and this collection demonstrates the varied ways in which he pursued his philosophy of life. Gently pointing out human follies and the absurdities of the conventional Victorian society in which he lived, Lear's nonsense has enchanted children and adults alike for generations.

'Nonsense is the breath of my nostrils', wrote Edward Lear. Through his exuberant and timeless verse he created an extraordinary world in which the strangest creatures are at home, where people misbehave with joyful abandon and the rules of everyday life never apply. His most famous poems, such as 'The Owl and the Pussy-cat', The Jumblies' and 'The Quangle Wangle's Hat', have enchanted children and adults alike for generations. Containing previously unpublished material, Vivien Noakes's paperback edition of Lear's nonsense writings includes well-loved poems along with limericks, stories, letters, illustrated alphabets and even nonsense recipes. Complemented throughout by Lear's fantastical line drawings, this is the perfect introduction to his world of nonsense.

A BOOK OF NONSENSE

One of the world's most loved writers, Edward Lear has delighted whole generations of readers with his verse. Now The Book of Nonsense is available once again from his original publishers.

Este Fabuleario de Lear recoge un conjunto de obras del gran maestro inglés del nonsense. Se inicia el libro con una selección de limericks, poemas de cinco versos de origen irlandés de tema satírico y con elementos absurdos, denominados Limelearicks.