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Edward Lear
Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised but which term he never used.
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culture · British artist, poet and writer (1812–1888) · writer · poet · illustrator · painter · novelist · ornithologist · comedian · humorist · draftsperson · watercolorist · also Edward Lear, Derry Down Derry, Eduard Liri, Lear
Born 12 May 1812 · Died 29 January 1888 · Q309759
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The Guardian: Edward Lear: Moment to Moment review – paradise with a runcible spoon
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2024· 1 entry
2022· 3 entries
The Guardian: Edward Lear: Moment to Moment review – paradise with a runcible spoon
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The Guardian: Owl and Pussycat author Edward Lear’s no-nonsense talent for capturing the moment in drawings
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Publishers Weekly: Books by Edward Lear and Complete Book Reviews
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2021· 1 entry
The Guardian: How Edward Lear's artistic genius led to the Owl and the Pussycat
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2017· 5 entries
The Guardian: Reviews roundup: Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense; The Sparsholt Affair; and Origin
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The Guardian: From ging-e-jonga to the Quangle Wangle Quee: the animal world of Edward Lear
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The Guardian: Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense by Jenny Uglow review – owls, pussycats and wonder
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The Guardian: Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense review – honey and heartbreak
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The Guardian: The 100 best nonfiction books: No 58 – Nonsense Songs by Edward Lear (1871)
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2016· 2 entries
The Guardian: Edward Lear’s shame about his epilepsy | Letters
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The Guardian: Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs and Stories - archive, 9 July 1888
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2015· 1 entry
The Guardian: The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear - review
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2013· 1 entry
The Guardian: Edward Lear's The New Vestments: the artistry of an extraordinary suit
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2012· 3 entries
The Guardian: Edward Lear's parrots and Thomas Schutte's humans – the week in art
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The Guardian: Happy Birthday, Edward Lear: 200 Years of Nature and Nonsense – in pictures
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The Guardian: It's not all nonsense: exhibition shows the artistic side of Lear
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1888· 2 entries
Died 1888-01-29.
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Of heart disease, which he had since at least 1870
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1887· 1 entry
And was buried with some ceremony in a garden at Villa Tennyson
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1871· 1 entry
Published Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets, which included the nonsense song "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat", which he wrote for the children of his patron Edward Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby
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1847· 1 entry
Described in Lear's Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria, & c
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1846· 1 entry
Lear published The Book of Nonsense, a volume of limericks which went through three editions and helped popularise the form and the genre of literary nonsense
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1843· 1 entry
Through the Marsica (Celano, Avezzano, Alba Fucens, Trasacco) and the plateau of Cinque Miglia (Castel di Sangro and Alfedena), by an old sheep track of the shepherds
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1842· 1 entry
Lear began a journey into the Italian Peninsula, travelling through the Lazio, Rome, Abruzzo, Molise, Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria and Sicily
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1812· 1 entry
Born 1812-05-12.
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