Edward Lear : selected letters / edited by Vivien Noakes

Lear, Edward (1812-1888)

ISBN 10: 0198186010 / ISBN 13: 9780198186014

Edité par Oxford : Clarendon, 1988

A propos de cet article

Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xlii,325p : ill. ; 22 cm. Subjects; Lear, Edward 1812-1888. Artists England Biography. Poets, English 19th century Correspondence. Artists England Correspondence. 1 Kg.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Edward Lear : selected letters / edited by Vivien Noakes
• Éditeur: Oxford : Clarendon
• Date de parution: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0198186010
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780198186014
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: First Edition.
• Poids: 1 kilogramme

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Synopsis

This is the first edition of Edward Lear's letters for nearly eighty years, and the first to draw on all his known correspondence, which is now scattered in private and public collections throughout the world. Most of the letters have never before been published. They span the years from 1826 to 1888, tracing both his private life and his career - as landscape painter, traveller, nonsense writer, and one of the greatest ornithological draughtsmen this country has ever produced. They vividly illustrate the hardships and excitements of 19th-century travel, the happy ebullience of the nonsense writer, and the sad loneliness of a man isolated by the secret of his epilepsy. The letters are characteristic and revealing - particularly those to his sister Ann, which form the most important correspondence of his life. To all his correspondents, however, from zoologists to painters, politicians to children, he wrote with an artist's vivid observation, and with complete originality.

À propos de l?auteur

Noakes is the leading authority on Lear and author of his biography.