To limerick lovers the name Edward Lear has long (and incorrectly) meant the inventor of the limerick. To painters it has meant a third-rate landscapist of the second-rate British school. But when ...
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 ...
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 ...
EDWARD LEAR has waited fifty-one years for his biographer. In that half century his renown as a writer of nonsense verse, and to a lesser degree as a comic artist, has carried his name throughout the ...
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