Last week, on May 12, there passed little-remarked the birthday of Edward Lear (1812–1888). And we should not let pass entirely the opportunity to say something about a man who must surely count as ...

But now trans rights campaigners have renamed Edward Lear's famous poem, saying the word 'pussy' now has 'linguistic connotations' that did not apply when it was written in 1871.

Robert McCracken Peck's The Natural History of Edward Lear is, in part, a concise biography of the great Victorian artist, traveller and nonsense poet, but more particularly a celebration of Lear ...

Edward Lear is the other great master of Victorian nonsense. Admittedly, Lear (1812-1888) lacks the universal appeal of his contemporary Lewis Carroll, but his longer poems — such as “The ...

Lear's Owl and the Pussycat has been translated into languages as diverse as Bengali, Polish, Cree and Amharic Poet Edward Lear was a genius at writing "nonsense" verse. But the author of surreal ...