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.

The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense Edward Lear Edited by Vivien Noakes Penguin: 624 pp., $16 paper * In 1886, the redoubtable Victorian critic John Ruskin was invited by the Pall Mall Gazette ...

Edward Lear was born in 1812, the 20th of 21 children. With almost no formal schooling, he was largely self-taught as a draftsman and painter, earning small amounts by selling anatomical and ...

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 ...