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.

In her extraordinary new book “Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense,” Jenny Uglow—the award-winning biographer of Charles II, Elizabeth Gaskell and William Hogarth—writes: “Birds gave ...

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 ...

In memory of this great poet, the inaugural Edward Lear Prize for poetry took place on Day three of the Fairway Galle Literary Festival. Reita Gadikari and Shane Thantriri Mudalige, co-owners of the ...

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 ...

Poet Edward Lear was a genius at writing "nonsense" verse. But the author of surreal limericks was also a serious travel writer, zoological illustrator and landscape painter. Had he been alive ...

Edward Lear as drawn by himself. Happy National Limerick Day 2016! Today is all about word play and rhymes to celebrate the birthday of English artist and writer Edward Lear.

Edward Lear has a double niche in English culture, as a writer of inspired comic and sometimes surrealistic verse and as a skilled watercolour artist, sketching in Europe, as well as in Egypt, 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 ...