Category Archives: Edward Lear

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

A Review of Illustrated Excursions in Italy(and Fanny Kemble’s A Year of Consolation) from the Quarterly Review, reprinted in Littell’s Living Age, no. 187, 11 December 1847, pp. 481-94.Cornell University Making of America

Lear necrology from The New England Magazine. / Volume 6, Issue 33 March 1888, p. 302.