Edward Lear biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Edward Lear

Author Name:

Edward Lear

Born As:

Edward Lear

Other Names:

Born:

12 May 1812

Died:

29 Jan 1888




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Painter and writer of nonsense poems                          
Selected Works:

Illustrations of the Family of the Psittacidæ - 1832
Tortoises, Terrapins, and Turtles by J.E. Gray
Views in Rome and its Environs - 1841
Gleanings from the Menagerie at Knowsley Hall - 1846
Illustrated Excursions in Italy - 1846
Book of Nonsense - 1846
Journal of a Landscape Painter in Greece and Albania - 1851
Journal of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria - 1852
Book of Nonsense and More Nonsense - 1862
Views in the Seven Ionian Isles - 1863
Journal of a Landscape Painter in Corsica - 1870
Nonsense Songs and Stories - 1871
More Nonsense Songs, Pictures, etc. - 1872
Laughable Lyrics - 1877
Nonsense Alphabets
Nonsense Botany - 1888
Tennyson's Poems, illustrated by Lear - 1889
Facsimile of a Nonsense Alphabet - 1849, but not published until 1926
The Scroobious Pip, unfinished at his death, but completed by Ogden Nash and illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert - 1968
The Quangle-Wangle's Hat.                          
Parents Ann and Jeremiah Lear, twenty childen.