Author:Edward Lear
Appearance
Works
[edit]Poems
[edit]- Dingle Bank
- How pleasant to know Mr. Lear
- The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò
- The New Vestments
- The Owl and the Pussycat
- The Quangle-Wangle's Hat
- The Jumblies
Limericks
[edit]- There was a young person whose history
- There was an Old Lady of Chertsey
- There was an Old Lady of Prague
- There was an Old Lady whose folly
- There was an Old Man, on whose nose
- There was an Old Man, who when little
- There was an Old Man at a casement
- There was an old man at a Station
- There was an Old Man in a boat
- There was an Old Man in a pew
- There was an Old Man in a tree
- There was an Old Man of Aôsta
- There was an Old Man of Apulia
- There was an Old Man of Blackheath
- There was an Old Man of Bohemia
- There was an Old Man of Calcutta
- There was an Old Man of Cape Horn
- There was an Old Man of Coblenz
- There was an Old Man of Columbia
- There was an Old Man of Corfu
- There was an old man of Dee-side
- There was an Old Man of Dundee
- There was an Old Man of Dunluce
- There was an old man of Dunrose
- There was an old man of Hong Kong
- There was an Old Man of Jamaica
- There was an Old Man of Kamschatka
- There was an Old Man of Kildare
- There was an Old Man of Kilkenny
- There was an Old Man of Leghorn
- There was an Old Man of Madras
- There was an Old Man of Marseilles
- There was an Old Man of Melrose
- There was an Old Man of Moldavia
- There was an Old Man of Nepaul
- There was an Old Man of New York
- There was an Old Man of Peru
- There was an Old Man of Peru
- There was an Old Man of Quebec
- There was an old man of Spithead
- There was an Old Man of th' Abruzzi
- There was an Old Man of the Cape
- There was an Old Man of the coast
- There was an Old Man of the Dee
- There was an Old Man of the East
- There was an Old Man of the Hague
- There was an Old Man of the Isles
- There was an Old Man of the Nile
- There was an Old Man of the North
- There was an Old Man of the South
- There was an Old Man of the West
- There was an Old Man of the West
- There was an Old Man of the Wrekin
- There was an old man of Thermopylæ
- There was an old man of Three Bridges
- There was an Old Man of Vesuvius
- There was an Old Man of Vienna
- There was an Old Man of Whitehaven
- There was an Old Man on a hill
- There was an Old Man on some rocks
- There was an old man on the Border
- There was an Old Man who said, 'How
- There was an Old Man who said, 'Hush!
- There was an Old Man who said, 'Well!
- There was an Old Man who supposed
- There was an old man whose despair
- There was an Old Man with a beard
- There was an Old Man with a beard
- There was an Old Man with a flute
- There was an Old Man with a gong
- There was an Old Man with a nose
- There was an Old Man with a owl
- There was an Old Man with a poker
- There was an Old Person from Gretna
- There was an Old Person of Anerley
- There was an Old Person of Bangor
- There was an Old Person of Basing
- There was an Old Person of Berlin
- There was an old person of Brill
- There was an old person of Bromley
- There was an Old Person of Buda
- There was an Old Person of Burton
- There was an Old Person of Cadiz
- There was an Old Person of Cheadle
- There was an Old Person of Chester
- There was an Old Person of Chili
- There was an Old Person of Cromer
- There was an Old Person of Dover
- There was an Old Person of Dutton
- There was an Old Person of Ems
- There was an Old Person of Ewell
- There was an old person of Fife
- There was an old person of Florence
- There was an Old Person of Hurst
- There was an Old Person of Ischia
- There was an Old Person of Leeds
- There was an Old Person of Mold
- There was an Old Person of Philæ
- There was an old person of Pinner
- There was an Old Person of Prague
- There was an old person of Putney
- There was an Old Person of Rheims
- There was an Old Person of Rhodes
- There was an old person of Shields
- There was an old person of Slough
- There was an Old Person of Spain
- There was an Old Person of Sparta
- There was an old person of Stroud
- There was an Old Person of Tartary
- There was an Old Person of Tring
- There was an old person of Troy
- There was an old person of Wick
- There was an Old Person whose habits
- There was an Old Sailor of Compton
- There was a Young Girl of Majorca
- There was a young lady in blue
- There was a young lady in white
- There was a Young Lady of Bute
- There was a Young Lady of Clare
- There was a Young Lady of Dorking
- There was a Young Lady of Hull
- There was a Young Lady of Lucca
- There was a Young Lady of Norway
- There was a Young Lady of Parma
- There was a Young Lady of Poole
- There was a Young Lady of Portugal
- There was a Young Lady of Russia
- There was a Young Lady of Ryde
- There was a Young Lady of Sweden
- There was a Young Lady of Troy
- There was a Young Lady of Turkey
- There was a Young Lady of Tyre
- There was a Young Lady of Wales
- There was a Young Lady of Welling
- There was a Young Lady whose bonnet
- There was a Young Lady whose chin
- There was a Young Lady whose eyes
- There was a Young Lady whose nose
- There was a young person in green
- There was a Young Person of Crete
- There was a Young Person of Smyrna
Books
[edit]- Illustrations of the family of Psittacidæ, or parrots (1832)
- Views in Rome and its Environs (1841)
- Gleanings from the Menagerie at Knowsley Hall (1846)
- The Book of Nonsense (1846), 1st Book of Nonsense
- Illustrated Excursions in Italy (1846)
- Mount Timohorit, Albania (1848)
- Journal of a Landscape Painter in Greece and Albania (1851)
- The falls of the Kalama Albania (1851)
- Journal of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria (1852)
- Poems and Songs by Alfred Tennyson (1853, 1859, 1860) Twelve total musical settings published, each being for a Tennyson poem.
- History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipplepopple (1865)
- Journal of a Landscape Painter in Corsica (1870)
- Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets (1871), 2nd Book of Nonsense
- Tortoises, Terrapins, and Turtles (1872), with an introduction by John Edward Gray
- More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc. (1872), 3rd Book of Nonsense
- Laughable Lyrics (1877)
- Nonsense Alphabets
- Argos from Mycenae (1884)
- Nonsense Botany (1888)
- Tennyson's Poems, illustrated by Lear (1889)
- The Quangle-Wangle's Hat (1876)
- Facsimile of a Nonsense Alphabet (1926)
- The Scroobious Pip, unfinished at his death, but completed by Ogden Nash and illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert (1968)
As Illustrator
[edit]- Gleanings from the menagerie and aviary at Knowsley Hall. By John Edward Gray, 1846 vol 1, vol 2
Works about Lear
[edit]- "Lear, Edward," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
- "Lear, Edward," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
- "Lear, Edward," by Franklin Lushington in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
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