Cover, imprinted upper center: The Push Pin Monthly Graphic [in fraktur font over calligraphic meandor design]; imprinted lower center below: Selected Nonsense from the Work of Edward Lear.

Lear seems to have taken the epochal genius for emotional ambiguity to its furthest reach: a contemporary was struck that the poet could perform a setting of Tennyson’s ‘Tears, Idle Tears’ and sob ...

Edward Newman: a critique - David & Stuart Wise Comments on the naturalist and author of "The Natural History Of British Butterflies and Moths" from the 1860s. Plus a compilation of his statements and ...

A personal reflection on poetry—from the harsh truths of Philip Larkin to the whimsical absurdity of Edward Lear, and the rise of Instagram poets like Rupi Kaur.

Last week, 60 years after Edward Lear and his faithful old cat-traveling companion Foss died, Manhattan galleryites got a chance to judge Edward Lear the artist through his spontaneous sketches.

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 ...

Much childhood—and adult—delight can be attributed to a certain Edward Lear who conjured up, among other beings, an old man with a beard that housed “Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks and a Wren”, often ...

Edward Lear, Gallipoli 10 September 1848, Watercolor and sepia ink over graphite on white paper, Houghton Library, Harvard.