Edward Lear
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1812 – 1888
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Who was Edward Lear?
Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author and poet, and is known now mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised. His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to illustrate birds and animals; making coloured drawings during his journeys, which he reworked later, sometimes as plates for his travel books; as a illustrator of Alfred Tennyson's poems. As an author, he is known principally for his popular nonsense works, which use real and invented English words.
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- Born
- May 12, 1812
Holloway - Parents
- Siblings
- Ethnicity
- English people
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Employment
- Zoological Society of London
- Lived in
- Highgate
- Sanremo
- Died
- Jan 29, 1888
Sanremo
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on July 23, 2013
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