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7 unusual facts about Edward Lear


Bright Red

The song "Beautiful Pea Green Boat" has additional lyrics from the poem "The Owl and the Pussycat" by Edward Lear; in the album credits his name is misspelled "Edwin".

# "Beautiful Pea Green Boat" – 4:20 ~ (additional lyrics from "The Owl and the Pussycat" by Edward Lear)

César Aira

Besides his fiction, and the translation work he does for a living, Aira also writes literary criticism, including monographic studies of Copi, the poet Alejandra Pizarnik, and the nineteenth-century British limerick and nonsense writer Edward Lear.

Gunby Hall

The Hall contains significant collections of art, furniture, porcelain and silver including original pieces by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edward Lear, William Morris, Lord Tennyson, William Holman Hunt, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Sheraton and Lucio Rannuci.

Knowsley Safari Park

The Derby Estate have a tradition of keeping animals, ever since the famous artist and nonsense-poet Edward Lear was employed there in the 19th century to paint pictures of the Earl's collection.

Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress

The journalist complied, choosing her pseudonym from Edward Lear's poem The Jumblies.

Regent Parrot

The Regent Parrot was first described by English author and wit Edward Lear in 1831.


Ego integrity

In his late haiku, 'we see Issa the old man - hundreds of years, thousands of years old, the Old Man of Edward Lear. That is our fate too. We have to die, to become nothing, in order to know the meaning of something'.

Elton Hayes

One of his best-loved songs was his recording of the Victor Hely-Hutchinson setting of Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat.

Hoipolloi

Shôn Dale-Jones’ interest in nonsense literature is reflected in Hoipolloi’s last two ensemble shows, The Doubtful Guest, inspired by the book of the same name by Edward Gorey, and My Uncle Arly, which was inspired by the work of Edward Lear .

Nonsense verse

Among writers in English noted for nonsense verse are Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Ogden Nash, Mervyn Peake, Colin West, Roald Dahl, Dr. Seuss, Brian P. Cleary, and Spike Milligan.

Scanno, Abruzzo

Situated in the Sagittario Valley and encircled by the Majella mountains Scanno has been immortalised by photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson (1951) and Mario Giacomelli (1957-1959) and, according to Edward Lear, was host to Italy’s most beautiful women (Illustrated excursions in Italy by Lear, Edward, 1846).


see also

Bong tree

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson by Beatrix Potter, written as a prequel to Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat" and features the land where the Bong tree grows as a locale