He also composed and published twelve musical settings of Tennyson's poetry. His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to make illustrations of birds and animals making coloured drawings during his journeys, which he reworked later, sometimes as plates for his travel books and as a (minor) illustrator of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poems.Īs an author, he is known principally for his popular nonsense collections of poems, songs, short stories, botanical drawings, recipes and alphabets. The Book of Nonsense, The Owl and the PussycatĮdward Lear ( – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised. It is a masterpiece of complete nonsense about a man who meets his wife.Children's literature, literary nonsense and limericks. It’s this amazing poem called Yonghy Bongy Bo and there’s a song that goes along with it.
That being said, this book is a WOW book for me not because of the Owl and Pussy-Catt and not because of the Friends on a drive, but the last poem in the book which I can only describe as a mixture of a sea chantey and folk song combination. There’s a lot of personification and this would give students practice with dealing with it in a funny way! It could also be used in a music class as one of the poems has a song that goes along with it. There’s a ton of good figurative language use and it would be a great way to introduce students to it. I would use this book in my reading class. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and it could be read with any of the grades 3-6. The book is just filled with nonsense poems with each one more ridiculous than the other.
There’s also The Broom, The Shovel, The Poker, and The Tongs which is a group of friends (I could be wrong here) that go for a ride in the park. The title may give it away but the poems in this book are exactly that Nonsense! There’s some wonderful poems in it that stand out to me including the love story of The Owl and The Pussy-Cat as they go to get married with a ring from a pig.
The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verses is a collection of verses written by Edward Lear.
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