An Edward Lear Collection
Narrated by Denis Daly, Sarah Bacaller and Lucy Bacaller
Have you been lately to Lake Pipple Popple? Perhaps you have spotted the Pobble who has no toes? Or maybe you have roosted in the Quangle Wangle's hat? Certainly Mr. Edward Lear has (he's written all about it). And now, you can listen to his tales read aloud, full of rhyme, rhythm and words that you won't find in the dictionary!
Edward Lear (1812 - 1888) was a creative and skilled Englishman who composed music, wrote poetry, and was a talented illustrator. He was earning an income from drawing by the age of 16 years. Lear is remembered today primarily for his nonsense poems, stories and songs, and for popularising the poetic form of the limerick. He spent the last decade of his life in San Remo, Italy.
The opening poem, How Pleasant To Know Mr Lear, was later used by T. S. Eliot as the basis of a mocking self portrait, 'How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot!'
1 - How Pleasant To Know Mr Lear
2 - The History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple
3 - The Two Old Bachelors
4 - The Pelican Chorus
5 - The Pobble who has no Toes
6 - Mr and Mrs Discobbolus
7 - The Quangle Wangle's Hat
8 - The Akond of Swat
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Edward Lear was an English artist and poet who loved writing nonsense. He is known for popularizing the limerick, a bouncy sort of poem that is often nonsensical and amusing rather than formal or traditional. These poems, stories, and songs are utterly silly, with much of the charm being in the rhythm and rhymes with which they can be read aloud.
The Book of Nonsense was anonymously published in 1846, with 72 limericks about all sorts of nonsense subjects, like an old man with a beard full of birds, a volcano scientist whose work gets ironically burnt in a volcano, and a woman whose nose was so long she needed a hired hand to carry it. These poems are nonsensical and silly.
Nonsense Songs and Stories – Nonsense Songs and Stories was another of Edward Lear’s nonsense publications. Unlike Book of Nonsense, this book consists mainly of longer songs and stories instead of quick limericks. The songs and stories are still though, about personified insects and objects, children sailing to islands made of chocolates and talking vegetables. This book contains the author’s personal favorite of his songs: “The Owl and the Pussycat,” about an owl and cat sailing on a boat made of honey and a piece of paper money, exploring the world and falling in love.
A fine selection of hand-picked classics from the master of nonsense, enthusiastically narrated by Colin Jones.
This collection contains some of Mr Lear's finest works:
How Pleasant to Know Mr Lear
The Jumblies
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
The Pobble Who Has No Toes
The Broom, the Shovel, the Poker and the Tongs
Mr and Mrs Discobbolos
The Dong With a Luminous Nose
The Duck and the Kangaroo
The Daddy Long-legs and the Fly
The New Vestments
The Quanglewangle's Hat
The Two Old Bachelors
Incidents in the Life of my Uncle Arly
The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò
And more!
An enchanting collection of classic stories and rhymes for younger listeners. Warning - you may be tempted to stay up all night listening!
'The Land of Storybooks', 'Gold Tree and Silver Tree', 'The Elephant's Child', 'The Owl and the Pussy Cat', 'How Beauty Contrived to Get Square with the Beast', 'The Enchanted Pig', 'The Beginning of the Armadillos', 'The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet', 'The Frog Who Would a-Wooing Go', 'The Cat That Walked by Himself', 'Jack and his Comrades', 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin', 'Fair Brown and Trembling', 'The Storyteller', 'The Frog Princess', 'The Magic Fishbone', 'The Nettle Spinner', and 'How Little Red Riding Hood Contrived to Be Eaten'.
A delightful collection of classic poems that will delight young and old alike, including: 'How Beauty Contrived to Get Square with the Beast' by Guy Wetmore Carryl, 'How Little Red Riding Hood Contrived to Be Eaten' by Guy Wetmore Carryl, 'How Rudeness and Kindness Were Justly Rewarded' by Guy Wetmore Carryl, 'If No One Ever Marries Me' by Lawrence Alma TademaI’m, 'Nobody, Who Are You?' by Emily Dickinson, 'Lochinvar' by Sir Walter Scott, 'The Akond of Swat' by Edward Lear, 'The Eagle' by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 'The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet' by Guy Wetmore Carryl, 'The Jumblies' by Edward Lear, 'The Land of Storybooks' by Robert Louis Stevenson, 'The Owl and the Pussy Cat' by Edward Lear, 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' by Robert Browning, 'The Tiger' by William Blake, and 'How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix' by Robert Browning.
