Category Archives: Edward Lear

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).

Lear-ing by David Noland, about Lear’s travels in Calabria. Delta-Sky.com