Were you a tome?
Matthew Bevis: Edward Lear, 14 December 2017
Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense
by Jenny Uglow.
Faber, 608 pp., £25, October 2017,978 0 571 26954 9 Show More
by Jenny Uglow.
Faber, 608 pp., £25, October 2017,
“... heroic ‘Eclogue’ in which he recalls how he and his siblings were forced to leave the house in Holloway where they were born. His letters and journals contain linguistic breakings and remakings, with nonsense refusing to play by house rules: ‘Then “home” – politeful word!’, ‘were you a Tome yesterday?’, ‘I came moam & rote this.’ Lear ... ”