Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense. By Jenny Uglow. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 608 pages; $45. Faber & Faber; £25. “PLOFFSKIN, Pluffskin, Pelican jee!” sing the birds in Edward Lear’s poem “The ...

Edward Lear (1812-1888), ed. by Edward Mendelson, illus. by Laura Huliska-Beit, joins the well-conceived Poetry for Young People series. Misunderstood by his peers and plagued by loneliness and low ...

Lear's Poems Illustrated in 'Pelican Chorus'A lively new book for children who aren't averse to a bit of verse, The Pelican Chorus and Other Nonsense features the poems of Edward Lear and the ...

In this offbeat volume of four Lear verses, Willey (The Golden Hoard: Myths and Legends of the World) conjures a dream-realm of dark skies and vaguely unearthly animals. Asymmetrical windows of rich ...

May 12 (UPI) --National Limerick Day, celebrated annually on May 12, marks the birthday of Edward Lear, the English writer who popularized the comedic style of poetry. The holiday's exact origins are ...

Edward Lear is the other great master of Victorian nonsense. Admittedly, Lear (1812-1888) lacks the universal appeal of his contemporary Lewis Carroll, but his longer poems — such as “The Jumblies” ...

Robert McCracken Peck's "The Natural History of Edward Lear" is, in part, a concise biography of the great Victorian artist, traveler and nonsense poet, but more particularly a celebration of Lear's ...

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“It is queer,” Edward Lear once wrote to a friend, “that I am the man as is making some three or four thousand people laugh in England all at one time. . . .” But to staid and sensible Victorians, who ...