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Over the Land and Over the Sea, Selected Nonsense and Travel Writings, by Edward Lear ; edited by Peter Swaab

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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

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Over the Land and Over the Sea

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by Edward Lear ; edited by Peter Swaab

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Selected Nonsense and Travel Writings

Cover -- Title Page -- Epigraph -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Selected Further Reading -- Nonsense Writings -- Eclogue -- 'When the light dies away on a calm summer's eve' -- Ode to the little China Man -- The Hens of Oripò -- Limericks from A Book of Nonsense (1846 and 1855) -- Limericks from A Book of Nonsense (1861) -- 'She sits upon her Bulbul' -- The Duck and the Kangaroo -- The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Round the World -- Growling Eclogue -- The Owl and the Pussy-cat -- The Broom, the Shovel, the Poker, and the Tongs -- The Daddy Long-legs and the Fly. -- Nonsense CookeryNonsense Botany (1) -- The Jumblies -- The Nutcrackers and the Sugar-tongs -- Mr and Mrs Discobbolos -- The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò -- Limericks from More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, Etc. (1872) -- Nonsense Botany (2) -- 'Cold are the crabs that crawl on yonder hill' -- The Scroobious Pip -- The Quangle Wangle's Hat ---The Pobble who has no Toes -- The Akond of Swat -- The Cummerbund -- The Pelican Chorus -- The Two Old Bachelors -- The Dong with a Luminous Nose -- Nonsense Trees -- 'Mrs Jaypher found a wafer' -- The Later History of the Owl and the Pussy-cat* -- 'O dear! how disgusting is life!' -- 'How pleasant to know Mr Lear!'Mr and Mrs Discobbolos Second Part -- Some Incidents in the Life of my Uncle Arly -- 'He only said, "I'm very weary"' -- Travel Writings -- from the prospectus to Views in Rome and Its Environs: Drawn from Nature and on Stone (1841) -- from Illustrated Excursions in Italy, Volumes I and II (1846) -- from Journals of a Landscape Painter in Albania, Etc. (1851) -- from Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria, Etc. (1852) -- 'A Leaf from the Journals of a Landscape Painter (The Journey to Petra)' (1858, 1897) -- from Views in the Seven Ionian Islands (1863). -- From Journal of a Landscape Painter in Corsica (1870)Appendix : Lear and Natural History ---Index of Nonsense Verse First Lines -- Index of Places -- About the Author -- Copyright