Lear, Edward
Lear, Edward
Lear, Edward Links
- Edward Lear The Tate Gallery's Edward Lear holdings with details and some pictures.
- Edward Lear Hotel, Marble Arch, London A commercial website for the hotel "formerly the home of Edward Lear, the famous Victorian painter and limerick writer."
- Edward Lear Home Page The life, paintings and complete Nonsense poems of Edward Lear, as well as news on Nonsense in general.
- Connections+ Nonsense and "Jabberwocky" Links to lesson plans using Lear's verse to teach language arts in middle and high school
- Edward Lear: More Than Nonsense A short essay on Lear and his poetry, accompanied by a photograph and drawings.
- ANS Edward Lear Exhibit All the zoological plates from Illustrations of the Family of Psittacid, or Parrots and Gleanings from the Menagerie and Aviary at Knowsley Hall
- Lear, Edward (1812-1888) A brief biographical note on Lear, extracted from The Oxford Companion to English Literature, accompanied by a single limerick.
- Two E. Lear portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, London
- Donald Barthelme, The Death of Edward Lear A short story from Overnight to Many Distant Cities. New York: Penguin, 1983.
- Lear translations by Alik Gotlib A small selection of limericks translated into Russian, accompanied by some of Lear's original drawings.
- Lear, Limericks and Literature "An introduction to the limerick and other zany rhymes made famous by Edward Lear in the 1850's." An online lesson plan aimed at creative writing classes; includes information on the history of the limerick form, as well as biographical material on Lear.
- Selected Poetry of Edward Lear (1812-1888) Some of the best-known poems from Representative Poetry Online at the Univ. of Toronto
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