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Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense

Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense

  • 作者: Jenny Uglow
  • 原文出版社:Faber & Faber
  • 出版日期:2017/10/05
  • 語言:英文
  • 定價:1375
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內容簡介

  Longlisted for 2017 The Baillie Gifford Prize, formerly known as The Samuel Johnson Prize (1999 – 2015), the most prestigious non-fiction prize in the UK.

  Edward Lear’s poems follow and break the rules. They abide by the logic of syntax, the linking of rhyme and the dance of rhythm, and these 'nonsenses' are full of joy – yet set against darkness. Where do these human-like animals and birds and these odd adventures – some gentle, some violent, some musical, some wild – come from? His many drawings that accompany his verse are almost hyper-real, as if he wants to free the creatures from the page. They exist nowhere else in literature, springing only from Lear’s imagination.

  Lear lived all his life on the borders of rules and structures, of disciplines and desires. He vowed to ignore politics yet trembled with passionate sympathies. He depended on patrons and moved in establishment circles, yet he never belonged among them and mocked imperial attitudes. He loved men yet dreamed of marriage – but remained, it seems, celibate, wrapped in himself. Even in his family he was marginal, at once accepted and rejected. Surrounded by friends, he was alone.

  If we follow him across land and sea – to Italy, Greece and Albania, to The Levant and Egypt and India – and to the borderlands of spirit and self, art and desire, can we see, in the end, if the nonsense makes sense? This is what Jenny Uglow has set sail to find out.

 

作者介紹

作者簡介

  Jenny Uglow grew up in Cumbria and now lives in Canterbury. Her books include prize-winning biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell and William Hogarth. The Lunar Men, published in 2002, was described by Richard Holmes as 'an extraordinarily gripping account', while Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick, won the National Arts Writers Award for 2007 and A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration was shortlisted for the 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize. Her most recent book, The Pinecone, tells the story of Romantic visionary Sarah Losh.

 

詳細資料

  • ISBN:9780571269549
  • 規格:精裝 / 608頁 / 16 x 24 x 4.5 cm / 普通級 / 全彩印刷 / 初版
  • 出版地:英國

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