How pleasant to know Mr. Lear! : Edward Lear's selected works / with an introduction and notes by Myra Cohn Livingston.
A selection of nonsense verse, with the author's illustrations, by the great nineteenth-century English humorist. Includes biographical introduction and notes.
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| Other title: | Works. Selections. 1982 |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Holiday House,
©1982.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- "How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!'
- "Ill-tempered and queer"
- "His nose is remarkably big"
- "His visage is more or less hideous"
- "His beard it resembles a wig"
- "One of the singers"
- "One of the dumbs"
- "A runcible hat"
- "He weeps"
- "By the side of the ocean"
- "Pancakes. . . and chocolate shrimps"
- "The days of his pilgrimage"
- Notes on the sources of the poems, further fax & speculations about Old Derry down Derry.