Alma Quirky Classics: The Owl and the Pussycat and Other Nonsense Poetry

基本信息

Format:Hardback 300 pages

Publisher:Alma Books Ltd

Imprint:Alma Classics

ISBN:9781847499356

Published:24 Oct 2024

Classifications:Poetry, Poetry by individual poets

Weight:410g

Dimensions:137 x 207 x 28 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

这首诗是写给诗人约翰·艾丁顿·西蒙兹的小女儿珍妮特的，当时珍妮特病在床上，《猫头鹰和小猫》讲述了这两只相爱的动物乘着一艘船，“航行了一年零一天，来到了长着烟枪树的地方”，并在那里结婚。

长期以来，这首诗一直被认为是英国受欢迎的诗歌之一，在这里，它与李尔所谓的“无意义歌曲”的其他令人难忘的例子结合在一起，比如“印花派”和“鸭子和袋鼠”，以及无意义的故事，烹饪，植物学和字母表，在一个集合中，将成人和儿童都带入了爱德华·李尔想象的非凡世界。

Written for the poet John Addington Symonds's 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 nation's 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 Lear's imagination.

作者简介

小约翰·艾丁顿·西蒙兹(/ s æ m æ ndz/；1840年10月5日- 1893年4月19日)，英国诗人和文学评论家。作为一名文化历史学家，他以对文艺复兴的研究以及众多作家和艺术家的传记而闻名。

John Addington Symonds Jr. (/ˈsɪməndz/;  5 October 1840 – 19 April 1893) was an English poet and literary critic.  A cultural historian, he was known for his work on the Renaissance, as well as numerous biographies of writers and artists.