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 ...

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 ...

We tour a display of the scientific illustrations of nonsense poet Edward Lear.

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 ...

Previously unseen poems and letters written by Owl and the Pussy-Cat poet Edward Lear have been unearthed. The Victorian nonsense poet, who penned his most famous work in 1871, sent the poems and ...

Through the poetry and imagination of Edward Lear, Quintessence Theatre will take audiences of all ages on a worldwide voyage with The Owl and The Pussycat and Other Nonsense. Learn how to ...

The 19th-century artist and poet Edward Lear was an eccentric, lonely sort of figure. He never married and—despite having the means to do so—never owned property until his 60s. Suffering from epilepsy ...

Previously unseen poems and letters written by Victorian nonsense poet Edward Lear have been found hidden in a private collection.

Previously unseen poems and letters written by Victorian nonsense poet Edward Lear have been found hidden in a private collection. The discovery was made by University of Nottingham PhD student ...