Edward Lear

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Category Description: Artist, illustrator, author, and poet; known for his playful use of language in limericks and nonsense rhymes, like The Owl and the Pussycat. Born 1812, died 1888.

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Edward Lear Home Page - Offers a biography, with a complete collection of his limericks and a selection of his songs and stories. Also contains examples of his natural history paintings, a number of essays about his work, and other resources.
Edward Lear, 1812-1888 - An online gallery of Lear's landscape paintings in the collections of the Tate Gallery.
Edward Lear: The Owl and the Pussy-cat - A collection of over 70 translations of the poem into a wide range of language; some of them have audio files attached.
Edward Lear: Victorian Trickster - An academic article presents a Jungian consideration of Edward Lear's nonsense verse.
Nonsense Books by Edward Lear - A complete collection of Lear's nonsense books, with the author's own illustrations.
The Remarkable Nature of Edward Lear - An online gallery of Lear's natural history paintings and scientific illustrations, taken from two of his publications.

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