Edward Lear and My Father

Limericks Revisited

Fiction & Literature, Poetry
Cover of the book Edward Lear and My Father by Barbara Whitehead, AuthorHouse UK
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Author: Barbara Whitehead ISBN: 9781496978202
Publisher: AuthorHouse UK Publication: April 28, 2014
Imprint: AuthorHouse UK Language: English
Author: Barbara Whitehead
ISBN: 9781496978202
Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
Publication: April 28, 2014
Imprint: AuthorHouse UK
Language: English

This is really my fathers book. Dad was a great fan of Edward Lear, constantly reciting the Nonsense Poems throughout my childhood. He asked me, when I was a teenager, to quote the first line of a Lear limerick. Without reading the rest of the verse, Dad composed his own version using Lears first line and he continued until he had rewritten all hundred and nine limericks, bringing them into the twentieth century. If this little book amuses and delights even a few people, I think Dad would be pleased. His motto in life was to put more into this world than he took out of it. I have tried, out of love for him, to enable him to leave a little more in this world. Barbara Whitehead (nee Lowe)

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This is really my fathers book. Dad was a great fan of Edward Lear, constantly reciting the Nonsense Poems throughout my childhood. He asked me, when I was a teenager, to quote the first line of a Lear limerick. Without reading the rest of the verse, Dad composed his own version using Lears first line and he continued until he had rewritten all hundred and nine limericks, bringing them into the twentieth century. If this little book amuses and delights even a few people, I think Dad would be pleased. His motto in life was to put more into this world than he took out of it. I have tried, out of love for him, to enable him to leave a little more in this world. Barbara Whitehead (nee Lowe)

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