Uglow, Jennifer S., Mr. Lear , 2018
- Title(s):
Mr. Lear : a life of art and nonsense / Jenny Uglow.
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Published/Created:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
©2017 - Physical Description:
- x, 598 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryNJ18.L455 U35 2018 (LC)Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/13635725
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- "Originally published in 2017 by Faber and Faber Limited, Great Britain"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 530-533) and index. - Subject Terms:
- Artists -- Great Britain -- Biography.Artists.Great Britain.Lear, Edward, 1812-1888.Lear, Edward, 1812-1888.Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography.Poets, English.
- Form/Genre:
- Biography.
Nonfiction.
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- Prologue: "It's absurd..."
- I. Fledgling
- One foot off the ground
- With the girls
- "O Sussex!"
- II. Perching
- To the zoo
- Knowsley
- Tribes and species
- Make 'em laugh
- Mountains
- III. Flying
- "Rome is Rome"
- Happy as a hedgehog
- Third person
- Excursions
- Derry down Derry: Nonsense, 1846
- "Something is about to happen"
- "Calmly, into the dice-box"
- "All that amber"
- IV. Tumbling
- The brotherhood
- Meeting the poet
- An owl in the desert
- Half a life: Corfu and Athos
- Bible lands
- A was an ass
- Home again, Rome again
- No more
- V. Circling
- "Overconstrained to folly":Nonsense, 1861
- "Mr Lear the artist"
- "From island unto island"
- "What a charming life an artist's is!"
- "the "marriage" phantasy"
- "Gradually extinguified"
- VI. Calling
- Sail away: Cannes, 1868-1869
- "Three groans for Corsica!"
- Degli inglesi
- Nonsense Songs and More Nonsense
- Restless in San Remo
- India
- Families
- Laughable Lyrics
- VII. Swooping
- Shocks
- The Villa Tennyson
- "As great a fool as ever I was"
- Pax vobiscum"