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"Jabberwocky" is considered one of the greatest nonsense poems written in English.

Kirt has a book of Lear's nonsense poems that's valued at twelve thousand.

It is often now cited as one of the greatest nonsense poems written in the English language, the source for countless parodies and tributes.

AishL:'. . . definitely makes you want to try making up some of your own nonsense poems!'

Among Philippe's most studied works are his nonsense poems called Fatrasies and Oiseuses.

While there is plenty of strong new material, many of the 29 poems previously appeared in his "Laughing Time: Nonsense Poems" (1955).

No one claims that Baum's nonsense poems are as good as those of Edward Lear or Lewis Carroll.

With fellow poet Harold Stewart, McAuley concocted sixteen nonsense poems in a pseudo-experimental modernist style.

A book of nonsense poems, Rhymes Without Reason, was published in 1944 and was described by John Betjeman as "outstanding".

Mr. Peake's nonsense poems are the basis for "Shipwrecked Sofa," and, as represented here, they sail perilously close to doggerel.

During this time he wrote a book of nonsense poems, People One Ought to Know, with illustrations by Mangeot's eleven-year-old son, Sylvain.

Deposited in a back bedroom of the Sitwell house in Chelsea, he sets a batch of Edith's spikily inscrutable nonsense poems to music.

The Jubjub bird is a dangerous creature mentioned in Lewis Carroll's nonsense poems "Jabberwocky" and "The Hunting of the Snark".

Pumpkin Grumpkin: Nonsense Poems from Around the World, Collected by John Agard and Grace Nichols.

This is a reference to the Victorian painter Edward Lear, who wrote nonsense poems and songs of which Lennon was very fond (though Lear never wrote novels).

Whereas the complete "Ursonate" lasts 45 minutes, Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky," one of the greatest of all nonsense poems, can be read aloud in about a minute and 15 seconds.

A surprise best-seller in the United Kingdom was John Lennon's In His Own Write, a compendium of nonsense poems, sketches and drawings by one of the Beatles.

He often quotes Tagore to explain a certain situation to Ajit; in the later stories we find that the nonsense poems of Abol Tabol by Sukumar Ray too had attracted his interest.

I fed them plates of baked beans; squeezed oranges, bandaged knees, bowled cricket balls, ran beside tottering bicycles, read nonsense poems at bedtime, baked wholemeal bread, earthed up King Edward potatoes in the garden.

Lear spent five years as part of the household, the head of which was Stanley's father, the 13th Earl of Derby, and it was here that he started writing nonsense poems, originally for the amusement of the Earl's grandchildren.

It was the main topic of a 1968 children's musical play about Lear's nonsense poems, entitled The Owl and the Pussycat went to See.... The play was written by Sheila Ruskin and David Wood.

Keith Michael's "Ante Meridian" featured alliterative nonsense poems by Ilsa Gilbert, recited by Stephanie Myszak and Michael Schilke, and piano music by Nicholas Scarim, played on stage by Mimi Stern-Wolfe.

He also translated Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and Henry VIII, T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, the nonsense poems by Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll, the complete poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé.

His Select Nonsense of Sukumar Ray (New Delhi: OUP, 1998) is a wonderful recreation in English of Sukumar Ray's whimsical nonsense poems, and is probably the closest it is possible to get to expressing their spirit in a foreign language.

There is a long tradition of nonsense verse in English.

In fact, some readers consider the song mere nonsense verse.

However not all nonsense verse relies on word play.

The term is also used to describe other intentionally provocative art forms, such as nonsense verse.

Others feature nonsense verses and stock phrases from other songs that have nothing to do with the song.

"It's a cross between a snake and a shark - just nonsense verses.

Green continued to work through the 1920s and illustrated a nonsense verse alphabet with her husband.

Says the Lamb: a joyous book of sense and nonsense verse, illus.

Nursery rhymes and nonsense verse also are frequent subjects of traditional songs.

He could sing well, and he could write poetry, including nonsense verse.

Chrononhotonthologos occupies a central position in the development of English nonsense verse.

A puny, anthropomorphized deity, full of false mystery and nonsense verse.

Barker's own writing for the show tended to reflect his fascination with nonsense verse and word-play.

Scott, Campbell, and Byron probably never produced a line with the qualities of this nonsense verse.

Additionally, like other nonsense verse, the writing plays with and parodies a well identified genre of high seriousness.

Martin Gardner calls it "one of the undisputed masterpieces of nonsense verse".

He wrote nonsense verse for children.

The lyrics use each letter of the alphabet to make a nonsense verse of the song:

He created new Afrikaans proverbs and even wrote a love poem (albeit in nonsense verse) to his dog.

As a youth, I pulled it off the shelf, confused by the seeming incongruity between its heavyweight author and nonsense verse.

Each double-page spread - alas, there are only 10 - contains a four-line nonsense verse in which the last word is missing.

(Four newly illustrated books of Lear's nonsense verse are reviewed on page 28.)

But people still memorize Gilbert and Sullivan and the classic nonsense verse of the past.

The nonsense verse of Edward Lear, who died in 1888, is likewise in the public domain.

Other nonsense verse makes use of nonsense words-words without a clear meaning or any meaning at all.

Which artist was famous for his nonsense rhymes? 09.

In spite of herself, she smiled and clicked nonsense rhymes to the nymph, knowing that he was too young to respond.

Some of the nonsense rhymes.

In a hotel room he is joined by two Lucys, one playing jump-rope on the bed, the other yelling nonsense rhymes.

Nonsense Rhymes Collection (three books in one) (2006)

Nonsense Rhymes.

They prowled about the garden, picking flowers, drinking in the crab-apple blossoms, watching the harbour and making nonsense rhymes.

They kept on adding more nonsense rhymes till they ended with "Rum pum po!"

These include Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures by Edward Lear, Op.

Overlaying these hypernaturalistic scenes are evocations of the slain woman's spirit intoning nonsense rhymes in a high girlish voice.

Nonsense Rhymes Collections of Rhymes, Illustrated by Chris Fisher.

There was a volume of poems that read like nonsense rhymes, and what appeared to be a novel, Huzzah's place in it marked with a slip of paper.

It included work that they would have liked to encountered sooner as well as nonsense rhymes, ballad-type poems, riddles, folk songs and rhythmical jingles.

It is altogether advisedly that we quote chiefly from Mr. Lear's 'Nonsense Rhymes.'

Another mention of this piece of cutlery appears in the alphabetical illustrations Twenty-Six Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures.

They dance, remember nonsense rhymes, agonize as they listen to the Joe Louis-Billy Conn title match on the radio, make love and quarrel.

YES, it really is that Edward Lear: the author of nonsense rhymes like "The Owl and the Pussycat."

Hocus Pocus: Nonsense Rhymes, adapted from Danish by Peter Wesley-Smith, Illus.

Its guitarist and singer Curt Kirkwood has a sweet voice rife with twangy innocence, and his lyrics are often daffy little nonsense rhymes that offer grains of truth.

In 1982 Nancy Willard won the Newbery medal for her book of nonsense rhymes, "A Visit To William Blake's Inn."

A wandering hard had been invited to attend the meal and was now moving among the guests at tables, singing nonsense rhymes and taking requests for stories he would tell after dinner.

Churchill "Churchy" LaFemme: a mud turtle by trade; he enjoys composing songs and poems, often with ridiculous and abrasive lyrics and nonsense rhymes.

Other contexts include music such as Gregorian chants, formal or diplomatic speech, political rhetoric and invective, light-hearted nursery and nonsense rhymes, threnodies to the deceased and even medical texts.

The album opens with "Bíodh Orm Anocht", a strange song containing nonsense rhymes sung in a mixture of Donegal and Scottish Gaelic.

Nelly's rapping style has been described by Peter Shapiro as using "unforgettable hooks based on schoolyard songs, double-dutch chants, and nonsense rhymes" and has a "Missouri twang".