Comprehensive information about Edward Lear including biographical information, facts, literary works, and more. Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned today primarily for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularized. This educational Edward Lear resource has information about the author's life, works, quotations, articles and essays, and more.
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I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle - so all is peace. Go to Quote / Comment
There was an old party of Lyme Who married three wives at one time. Go to Quote / Comment
And bigamy, sir, is a crime.' Go to Quote / Comment