Category Archives: Edward Lear

Ship of fools. All aboard! by Vivien Noakes EDWARD LEAR would have been delighted, though not, I think, entirely surprised that The Owl and The Pussycat was recently voted the nation�s favourite children�s poem. �Nonsense is the breath of my … Continue reading →

John Gould’s Birds of Australia A page from the Treasures of the Library section of the National Library of Australia.

‘Owl and the Pussy-Cat’ voted favourite children’s poem Edward Lear’s “The Owl and the Pussy-Cat” has been voted Britain’s favourite children’s poem in the first public poll of its kind, carried out by the BBC.Independent

Top poetry is complete nonsense In a 1998 poll The Owl and the Pussy-cat ranked only 8th, but this was for “comic poems”.BBC News | Entertainment (October 10, 1998)

What’s your favourite children’s poem? Here you can read most of the top ten poems.BBC – Arts – Poetry

Poet extols verse’s ‘healing’ quality Some 1,000 balloons bearing the words of The Owl and the Pussy-Cat – voted the country’s best-loved children’s poem – were released into the London skies.BBC News | ARTS

Owl and the Pussy-Cat sail to the topPOETRY lovers, young and old, have voted Edward Lear’s The Owl and the Pussy-Cat their favourite children’s poem in a nationwide poll. The BBC poll, which was launched to celebrate National Poetry Day … Continue reading →

Here are a couple of articles with references to Edward Lear: PET TRADE BLUES (the efforts and moral problems involved in attempting to save Brazil’s Lear’s macaws from extinction), by Richard Hartley, from International Wildlife, March-April, 2000.Voyage of a painter … Continue reading →

artnet.com Magazine Reviews – Drawing Notebook He called himself “The Painter of Poetical Topography,” but the world knows this superb draughtsman better as the inventor of the limerick. He was the Englishman Edward Lear (1812-1888).