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Edward Lear foi um pintor e escritor inglês.

Em 1831 começou a trabalhar como ilustrador para a Zoological Society of London e depois para o Museu Britânico. Em 1835 passou a pintar também paisagens de modo minucioso. Publicou sete livros de viagens com ilustrações suas e três livros com desenhos de animais. Também pintava a óleo, mostrando influência do pré-rafaelismo.

Em 1846 deu lições de desenho à Rainha Vitória e escreveu seu primeiro Book of Nonsense, iniciando sua carreira literária na qual viria a se distinguir por desenvolver uma forma original de poemas de humor e absurdo e também por divulgar o limerick .

Publicou três livros de poemas nonsense ilustrados com figuras fantásticas e nos quais seu gênio se manifesta plenamente: Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets , More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes, Botany etc e Laughable Lyrics .

Ele é citado na música Paperback Writer, escrita por John Lennon e Paul McCartney, lançada em um single dos The Beatles em 1966. A linha diz "It´s based on a novel, by a man named Lear".

✵ 12. Maio 1812 – 29. Janeiro 1888
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Edward Lear: Frases em inglês

“And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.”

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Edward Lear The Owl and the Pussycat

Fonte: The Owl and the Pussycat

“There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, "It is just as I feared!—
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!"”

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Book of Nonsense http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/nnsns10.txt, Limerick 1 (1846).

“They went to sea in a sieve, they did;
In a sieve they went to sea;
In spite of all their friends could say.”

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" The Jumblies http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html", st. 1, in Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets (1871).

“They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.”

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Edward Lear The Owl and the Pussycat

St. 3.
Fonte: The Owl and the Pussycat (1871)

“When awful darkness and silence reign
Over the great Gromboolian plain,
Through the long, long wintry nights.
When the angry breakers roar
As they beat on the rocky shore;—
When Storm-clouds brood on the towering heights
Of the Hills of the Chankly Bore”

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The Dong with the Luminous Nose http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ll/dln.html, st. 1 (1877).

“They sailed away for a year and a day
To the land where the bong-tree grows.”

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Edward Lear The Owl and the Pussycat

St. 2.
The Owl and the Pussycat (1871)

“The Pobble who has no toes
Had once as many as we;
When they said, "Some day you may lose them all;"—
He replied, — "Fish fiddle de-dee!"”

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The Pobble Who Has No Toes http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ll/pobble.html, st. 1 (1877).

“On the Coast of Coromandel
Where the early pumpkins blow,
In the middle of the woods
Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò.
Two old chairs, and half a candle,—
One old jug without a handle,—
These were all his worldly goods.”

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St. 1.
The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bongy-Bò http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ll/ybb.html (1877)

“I would be your wife most gladly!
(Here she twirled her fingers madly,)
But in England I've a mate!
Yes! you've asked me far too late,
For in England I've a mate.”

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St. 5.
The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bongy-Bò http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ll/ybb.html (1877)

“There he heard a Lady talking,
To some milk-white Hens of Dorking,—
'Tis the lady Jingly Jones!
On that little heap of stones
Sits the Lady Jingly Jones!”

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St. 2.
The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bongy-Bò http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ll/ybb.html (1877)

“Calico Jam,
The little Fish swam,
Over the syllabub sea,
He took off his hat,
To the Sole and the Sprat,
And the Willeby-Wat,—
But he never came back to me!”

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Calico Pie, st. 2.

“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.”

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How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/pw/mrlear.html, st. 1 (1871).

“On a little heap of Barley
Died my aged uncle Arly,
And they buried him one night;—
Close beside the leafy thicket;—
There, his hat and Railway-Ticket;—
There, his ever-faithful Cricket;”

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But his shoes were far too tight.
Incidents in the Life of my Uncle Arly http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/pw/arly.html, st. 7 (1895).

“On the top of the Crumpetty Tree
The Quangle Wangle sat,
But his face you could not see,
On account of his Beaver Hat.”

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The Quangle Wangle's Hat http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ll/quangle.html, st. 1 (1877).

“Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.”

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" The Jumblies http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html", st. 1, in Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets (1871).

“Who, or why, or which, or what,
Is the Akond of Swat?”

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The Akond of Swat http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ll/akond.html, l. 1 (1877).

“Calico Pie,
The little Birds fly
Down to the calico tree,
Their wings were blue,
And they sang "Tilly-loo!"
Till away they flew,—
And they never came back to me!”

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Calico Pie http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/calico.html, st. 1 (1871).

“It's a fact the whole world knows,
That Pebbles are happier without their toes.”

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The Pobble Who Has No Toes, st. 6.

“His mind is concrete and fastidious,
His nose is remarkably big;
His visage is more or less hideous,
His beard it resembles a wig.”

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How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear, st. 2.

“Ploffskin, Pluffskin, Pelican jee!
We think no Birds so happy as we!
Plumpskin, Ploshkin, Pelican jill!
We think so then, and we thought so still!”

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The Pelican Chorus http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ll/pelican.html, chorus (1877).

“"Dear pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling
Your ring?" Said the Piggy, "I will."”

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Edward Lear The Owl and the Pussycat

St. 3.
The Owl and the Pussycat (1871)

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