The Owl and the Pussycat and Other Nonsense Poetry: Contains the original illustrations by the author (Quirky Classics series)

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Written for the poet John Addington Symondss young daughter Janet while she was ill and confined to her bed, The Owl and the Pussycat sees the two enamoured animals sail away in a boat for a year and a day / To the land with the bong tree grows, where they get married. Long considered one of the nations favourite poems, it is combined here with other memorable examples of what Lear called nonsense songs, such as Calico Pie and The Duck and the Kangaroo, as well as with nonsense stories, cookery, botany and alphabets, in a collection that transports adults and children alike to the extraordinary world of Edward Lears imagination.

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His nonsense is not vacuity of sense: it is parody of sense, and that is the sense of it. -- T.S. Eliot

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Edward Lear (181288) was an English painter and writer known primarily for his nonsense verse and for popularizing the limerick. His poem The Owl and the Pussycat remains one of the nations favourites. An intrepid traveller, Lear explored Syria, Egypt and India, among many other places. He published three volumes of bird and animal drawings, seven illustrated travel books and four books of nonsense.