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Edward Lear born 12 May 1812 was a British artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned for his literary prose, in poetry and prose, and especially his limerick.
He wrote a Book of Nonsense in 1846, Laughable Lyrics in 1877 and Nonsense Botany in 1888.
Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots (1832)
Views in Rome and its Environs (1841)
Gleanings from the Menagerie at Knowsley Hall (1846)
Book of Nonsense (1846)
Illustrated Excursions in Italy (1846)
Mount Timohorit, Albania (1848)
Journal of a Landscape Painter in Greece and Albania (1851)
The falls of the Kalama Albania (1851)
Journal of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria (1852)
Poems and Songs by Alfred Tennyson (1853, 1859, 1860) Twelve total musical settings published, each being for a Tennyson poem.
Journal of a Landscape Painter in Corsica (1870)
Nonsense Songs and Stories (1870, dated 1871)
Tortoises, Terrapins, and Turtles (1872), introduction by J.E. Gray
More Nonsense Songs, Pictures, etc. (1872)
Laughable Lyrics (1877)
Nonsense Alphabets
Argos from Mycenae (1884), now in the collection of Trinity College, Cambridge
Nonsense Botany (1888)
Tennyson's Poems, illustrated by
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