English 2033E Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Nonsense Verse

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 2033E
• Professor: Clarissa Suranyi

Document Summary

Edward lear, together with lewis carroll, invented nonsense as a literary genre. Carroll were the first to draw on this tradition and use it to create new, authored literature for children (later to be followed by dennis lee and dr. seuss). In that way, nonsense is a genre deeply rooted in entertainment. rhymes), it is also a rebellion against the conventions of children"s literature in the. Victorian period, when poems and stories for children tended to be excessively didactic and moralistic. To take a familiar example, the christmas carol once in royal david"s. City takes the christmas story (which is a great story for children, with the stable and animals, the manger, and so forth) and lays the moral on with a heavy hand: Although nonsense is rooted in the oldest tradition of children"s literature (nursery. A less familiar example of didactic poetry for children is table manners for.