Category Archives: Edward Lear

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA: Treasures from the World’s great libraries The National Library of Australia is proud to announce a landmark international exhibition, Treasures from the World’s Great Libraries.This will include “Edward Lear’s illustrated version of the nursery rhyme High … Continue reading →

Artistic Alpine views WATERCOLOURS and oil paintings depicting Alpine scenes captured from the mid-18th century up to the 1950s will be on show from the end of the month. Peaks and Glaciers, showing at John Mitchell & Son in London, … Continue reading →

The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense by Edward Lear Nonsense writers come into a special category, and perhaps we shouldn’t expect their posthumous reputations to follow the usual patterns. But still it’s surprising to realise, reading Vivien Noakes’s new edition, … Continue reading →

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)