The Secret Life of Books

2 Season
12 Episode

The Secret Life of Books - Season 2 Episode 2 Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs


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30 minutes 2024 HD

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Nicholas Parsons, a lifelong fan of Edward Lear, revisits the book that gave the world The Owl and the Pussycat to explore the fine line between joy and melancholy in Lear's writing and discover how the epileptic, bronchial, asthmatic depressive pioneered a new kind of poetry that married brilliant wordplay with astonishing artwork.

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