Edward Lear - Wikipedia
Edward Lear (12 May 1812 [1] [2] – 29 January 1888) 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.
Edward Lear | Biography, Nonsense Poetry, Limericks,
Edward Lear (born May 12, 1812, Highgate, near London, England—died January 29, 1888, San Remo, Italy) was an English landscape painter who is more widely known as the writer of an original kind of nonsense verse and as the popularizer of the limerick.
Five of the Best Edward Lear Poems – Interesting Literature
2017年5月3日 · Although he’s well-known as a pioneer of the poetic form known as the limerick, Edward Lear (1812-88) wrote a number of other classic poems which are among the finest examples of ‘nonsense verse’. Here are five of Edward Lear’s best poems, along with some information about each of them. ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’.
Edward Lear | The Poetry Foundation
This courageous Young Lady of Norway. The limerick generally has a closed structure, repeating the final word of the first line at the end of the last rather than utilizing the unexpected, punch-line rhyme that characterizes the successful modern limerick.
Biography – The Edward Lear Society
The British poet and painter known for his absurd wit, Edward Lear was born on May 12, 1812 and began his career as an artist at age 15. His father, a stockbroker of Danish origins, was sent to debtor’s prison when Lear was thirteen and the young Lear was forced to earn a living.
About Edward Lear - Academy of American Poets
Edward Lear. Edward Lear, the British poet and painter known for his absurd wit, was born on May 12, 1812, in Highgate, England, a suburb of London, and began his career as an artist at age fifteen.
Edward Lear 1812–1888 - Tate
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 in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised.
The Edward Lear Society
Welcome to The Edward Lear Society, the source of news and event information about the poet, wordsmith, writer, artist and illustrator, Edward Lear.
The Sense Beneath Edward Lear’s Nonsense | The New Yorker
2018年4月16日 · Reading his melodic nonsense lines, one might entertain the thought of Lear as a kind of comic Tennyson, with the same gift for murmuring sounds disguised as philosophy—and then, reading Uglow ...
Nonsense and sensibility: the brilliant and conflicted mind of Edward Lear
2017年9月24日 · “How Pleasant to Know Mr Lear!” is a comical self-portrait by Edward Lear, the Victorian poet of nonsense. This Mr Lear “has written such volumes of stuff!” His nose is “remarkably big”, his body “perfectly spherical” and his face, ineffectively hidden by an immense, bushy beard, “more or less hideous”.