Edward Lear (nonfiction)
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Edward Lear (12 or 13 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author, and poet, and is known now mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised.
His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold:
- As a draughtsman employed to illustrate birds and animals
- Making coloured drawings during his journeys, which he reworked later, sometimes as plates for his travel books
- As a (minor) illustrator of Alfred Tennyson's poems
As an author, he is known principally for his popular nonsense collections of poems, songs, short stories, botanical drawings, recipes, and alphabets.
He also composed and published twelve musical settings of Tennyson's poetry.
In the News
The fabled Runcible spoon.
Lear befriended Chrome Plover early in their career.
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External links
- Edward Lear @ Wikipedia