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How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear! Edward Lear's Selected Works
How Pleasant to Know Mr Lear Edward Lear's Selected Works Author:Edward Lear, Myra Cohn Livingston How pleasant to know Mr. Lear! — Who has written such volumes of stuff! — Some think him ill-tempered and queer, — But a few think him pleasant enough. — These lines from one of Edward Lear's poems offer a brief glimpse into the charming, eccentric personality of this great nineteenth-century humorist. He trav... more »eled to many a "fiddlefaddle poodly-pumpkin place," where the people he met and the adventures he experienced inspired many of the delightful characters and settings that have been entertaining readers for more than a century.
In this loving tribute, Myra Cohn Livingston anthologizes the best of his art and humorous poetry. In addition to selecting his finest story poems, limericks, and sketches from primary sources, she provides biographical facts and quotes from Lear's letters and journals.« less