Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense... 29 KB (3,324 words) - 09:31, 8 April 2024 |
Limerick (poetry) (section Edward Lear) lines are shorter and share a different rhyme. It was popularized by Edward Lear in the 19th century, although he did not use the term. From a folkloric... 16 KB (1,942 words) - 20:50, 25 April 2024 |
sources. Though not the first to write this hybrid kind of nonsense, Edward Lear developed and popularized it in his many limericks (starting with A Book... 29 KB (3,742 words) - 12:04, 19 April 2024 |
of Britain Lear (play), a 1971 Edward Bond play Lear (opera), a 1978 opera by Aribert Reimann The Last Lear, a 2007 Indian play The Lears, a 2017 American... 3 KB (453 words) - 04:39, 7 December 2023 |
Wiktionary, the free dictionary. "Runcible" is a pseudoword invented by Edward Lear. The word appears (as an adjective) several times in his works, most... 13 KB (1,602 words) - 08:51, 13 April 2024 |
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat (category Poetry by Edward Lear) nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first published in 1870 in the American magazine Our Young Folks and again the following year in Lear's own book Nonsense... 8 KB (744 words) - 04:46, 13 April 2024 |
English writers in the 19th century, most notably Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear. The humour in surreal comedy arises from a subversion of audience expectations... 12 KB (1,358 words) - 14:43, 28 April 2024 |
Three (1852–1855). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. opposite 217.. Edward Lear. Edward Lear Diaries, 1858–1888. Houghton Library, Harvard: MS Eng 797.3 (27)... 35 KB (3,999 words) - 13:20, 23 April 2024 |
lithographs by Edward Lear. He produced 175 copies for sale to subscribers as a part-publication, which were later bound as a book. Lear started painting... 36 KB (4,007 words) - 21:30, 12 April 2024 |
Lear is a 1971 three-act play by the British dramatist Edward Bond. It is a rewrite of William Shakespeare's King Lear. The play was first produced at... 16 KB (1,800 words) - 18:45, 15 April 2022 |
a direct or oblique reference to a season. Limerick– Popularized by Edward Lear in his Book of Nonsense published in 1846, a limerick is considered the... 15 KB (2,248 words) - 17:01, 6 April 2024 |
(link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) Lear, Edward (1907). Letters of Edward Lear. T. Fisher Unwin. p. 165. Grindle, Simon (1964). The... 33 KB (4,146 words) - 13:44, 11 March 2024 |
Easy-to-Read Stories (1969) Books that Arnold Lobel illustrated for Edward Lear: The Four Little Children Who Went Around the World (1968) The New Vestments... 6 KB (856 words) - 18:28, 9 December 2023 |
favourite books, due to its similarity in rhyming style to the works of Edward Lear, of which she was fond of as a child. On a smooth black rock by the docks... 7 KB (854 words) - 22:48, 11 June 2023 |
exponent is Edward Lear, author of The Owl and the Pussycat and hundreds of limericks. Nonsense verse is part of a long line of tradition predating Lear: the... 19 KB (2,482 words) - 00:22, 9 March 2024 |
utopia where "Houses are bleached with cheese and covered with cake". Edward Lear situates his nonsense poem The Yonghy Bonghy Bo by citing Coromandel... 11 KB (1,198 words) - 10:18, 27 April 2024 |
Frances Lear (née Loeb, July 14, 1923 – September 30, 1996) was an American activist, magazine publisher, editor and writer. Lear was born with only a... 7 KB (619 words) - 00:58, 26 December 2023 |
Nonsense by Edward Lear, penning punch lines of his own for each limerick. On the title page he wrote, "There was an old fossil named Lear, Whose verses... 71 KB (7,606 words) - 14:49, 17 April 2024 |