By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Dong with a Luminous Nose’ is one of the greatest nonsense poems by the Victorian poet and artist Edward Lear (1812-88). Among other things,...
The greatest poems by Edward Lear selected by Dr Oliver Tearle 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 clas...
Dr Oliver Tearle’s reading of one of nonsense literature’s best-loved poems ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’ is probably Edward Lear’s most famous poem, and a fine example of Victorian nonsen...
Edward Lear’s sequel to his classic nonsense love poem Did you know that Edward Lear wrote a sequel to ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’? ‘The Children of the Owl and the Pussy-Cat’ first app...
Interesting Edward Lear facts: concerning his life and his contribution to nonsense literature 1. He helped to popularise the limerick. Although he did not invent the form, the five-line comic ve...