Edward Lear
Standard Name: Lear, Edward
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Friends, Associates | Alfred Tennyson | A sociable man (although distrustful of unknown admirers) Tennyson was acquainted with many of the major artistic and political figures of the nineteenth century, including Edward FitzGerald
, Coventry Patmore
, Edward Lear
, William Ewart Gladstone |
Intertextuality and Influence | Beatrix Potter | The Tale of Pigling Bland (written, significantly, in the days of BP
's own courtship) is a love-story in whose happy ending Pigling and his beloved Pig-wig go dancing off hand-in-hand Over the hills and... |
Textual Features | Penelope Fitzgerald | The style of these Thirteen Poems suggests a lineage of Edward Lear
, Stevie Smith
, and Ogden Nash
. The briefest, A Lover's Humble Request, runs (in full): Look at me / O... |
Education | Leonora Carrington | One of LC
's first teachers was her nanny, Mary Kavanagh
, who tutored Leonora and told her ghost stories. When LC
was a child she was also exposed to stories by Beatrix Potter
,... |
Timeline
12 May 1812: Edward Lear, writer and artist, was born...
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12 May 1812
Edward Lear
, writer and artist, was born at Holloway, London.
10 February 1845: Edward Lear's first publication, A Book of...
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10 February 1845
Edward Lear
's first publication, A Book of Nonsense, appeared, containing short, deliberately inconsequential poems (not yet known as limericks) illustrated with his own line drawings.
1871: Edward Lear published Nonsense Songs, Stories,...
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1871
Edward Lear
published Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets, which included The Owl and the Pussy-Cat and The Jumblies.
29 January 1888: Edward Lear, writer and artist, died at San...
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29 January 1888
Edward Lear
, writer and artist, died at San Remo, Italy.
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