Edward Lear was the greatest nonsensicalist of all time. He was the inventor of the limerick and created the Jumblies and The Owl and the Pussycat. This complete edition of Lear's nonsense verse - including the limericks, longer verses, alphabets and his own illustrations - is lovingly restored and beautifully presented, for adults and children to enjoy together.
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. As an author, he is known principally for his popular nonsense works, which use real and invented English words.
Walter Raleigh, Lord Byron, A.H. Clough, William McGonagall, Edward Lear, W.S. Gilbert, Thomas Hardy, Lewis Carroll, A.C. Swinburne, J.K. Stephen, Benjamin Franklin King, A.E. Housman
