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...

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...

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...

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...

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. "Runcible" is a pseudoword invented by Edward Lear. The word appears (as an adjective) several times in his works, most...

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...

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...

 Three (1852–1855). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. opposite 217.. Edward Lear. Edward Lear Diaries, 1858–1888. Houghton Library, Harvard: MS Eng 797.3 (27)...

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...

Among writers in English noted for nonsense verse are Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Mervyn Peake, Edward Gorey, Colin West, Dr. Seuss, and Spike Milligan. The...

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...

King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is loosely based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age...

ranching. Lear's macaw was named after the famous poet, Edward Lear, who was also an accomplished artist. In his teens in the early 1830s, Lear published...

along with Ioannina were Ali's headquarters. In 1847, the British writer Edward Lear visited the town and noted the devastated buildings. The name of Tepelene...

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...

Macmillan Education UK. p. 177. ISBN 978-1-137-39219-0.[permanent dead link] Lear, Edward (2004-10-08). Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets. Buelens...

Milton Lear (July 27, 1922 – December 5, 2023) was an American screenwriter and producer who produced, wrote, created, or developed over 100 shows. Lear created...

(link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) Lear, Edward (1907). Letters of Edward Lear. T. Fisher Unwin. p. 165. Grindle, Simon (1964). The...

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...

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...

romances of Sir Walter Scott. As a young child, before the age of eight, Edward Lear's A Book of Nonsense, including the much loved The Owl and the Pussycat...

naturalist. He was the patron of the writer Edward Lear. He was the eldest child and only son and heir of Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby (1752–1834)...

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...

Wullschläger, Jackie: Inventing Wonderland. ISBN 0-7432-2892-8. – Also looks at Edward Lear (of the "nonsense" verses), J. M. Barrie (Peter Pan), Kenneth Grahame...

handles cremation Edwin Lord Weeks (1849 – 1903), The Last Voyage, 1884 Edward Lear (1812–1888) Cityscape, 1873 The history of the world; a survey of a man's...

as literary nonsense, the genre made most famous by Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear. In response to being called gothic, he stated, "If you're doing nonsense...

produced by his wife, Elizabeth Gould, and several other artists, including Edward Lear, Henry Constantine Richter, Joseph Wolf and William Matthew Hart. He...

utopia where "Houses are bleached with cheese and covered with cake". Edward Lear situates his nonsense poem The Yonghy Bonghy Bo by citing Coromandel...

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...

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...