Book of Nonsense (Containing Edward Lear's complete Nonsense Rhymes Songs and Stories with the Original Pictures)

<p><strong>Edward Lear</strong> was an English artist illustrator author and poet renowned for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks a form that he popularized.</p><p>Lear's nonsense works are distinguished by a facility of verbal invention and a poet's delight in the sounds of words both real and imaginary. A stuffed rhinoceros becomes a "diaphanous doorscraper". A "blue Boss-Woss" plunges into "a perpendicular spicular orbicular quadrangular circular depth of soft mud". His heroes are Quangle-Wangles Pobbles and Jumblies. His most famous piece of verbal invention a "runcible spoon" occurs in the closing lines of <em>The Owl and the Pussycat</em> and is now found in many English dictionaries.</p>