Edward Lear: not just a pretty poet. When the newly founded Zoological Society of London needed a painter to depict rare birds, they called on the future poet Edward Lear, says David Attenborough.

Jonathan Ashmore: Edward Lear is best known for his nonsense poetry and his landscapes, but in fact he started off his career as a scientific illustrator, and he did some wonderful pictures of ...

As Edward Lear prepared to visit Palestine in 1857, he asked the painter William Holman Hunt for any introductions that might prove useful in Jerusalem. “Tell them you introduce a most irregular & ...

Edward Lear wrote the pages to a young woman he befriended in Italy. Previously unseen poems and letters written by Victorian nonsense poet Edward Lear have been found hidden in a private collection.

May 12 (UPI) --National Limerick Day, celebrated annually on May 12, marks the birthday of Edward Lear, the English writer who popularized the comedic style of poetry.The holiday's exact origins ...

The wildly successful children’s author Julia Donaldson recalls how her grandmother’s readings of Edward Lear’s poems sparked her creative imagination. By way of homage, her latest book ...

Poem of the Day: ‘The Pobble Who Has No Toes’ Edward Lear must surely count as one of the most interesting and peculiar figures to live in the Victorian age — and that’s saying something, for the ...

Based on Edward Lear’s silly and whimsical poetry, the show is perfect for families introducing live theater to their children, with a one hour run time, $15 tickets and 10AM, 11AM and 2PM ...

Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense. By Jenny Uglow. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 608 pages; $45. Faber & Faber; £25. “PLOFFSKIN, Pluffskin, Pelican jee!” sing the birds in Edward Lear’s poem ...

Edward Lear wrote the pages to a young woman he befriended in Italy. Previously unseen poems and letters written by Victorian nonsense poet Edward Lear have been found hidden in a private collection.