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Choice Reviews Online, 1995
Edward Lear, Victorian author of nonsense verse, was also a water-colourist and a traveller. Lear's sense of humour was contrasted with his severe bouts of depression. Gregarious and popular, he had a wide circle of friends including Alfred Tennyson, yet was often lonely.
John Kennedy, Peter Levi
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Edward Lear, Victorian author of nonsense verse, was also a water-colourist and a traveller. Lear's sense of humour was contrasted with his severe bouts of depression. Gregarious and popular, he had a wide circle of friends including Alfred Tennyson, yet was often lonely.
John Kennedy, Peter Levi
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2018
Edward Lear wrote a well-known autobiographical poem that begins “How pleasant to know Mr Lear!” But how well do we really know him? On the one hand he is, in John Ashbery’s words, “one of the most popular poets who ever lived”; on the other hand he has often been overlooked or marginalized by scholars and in literary histories.
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Edward Lear wrote a well-known autobiographical poem that begins “How pleasant to know Mr Lear!” But how well do we really know him? On the one hand he is, in John Ashbery’s words, “one of the most popular poets who ever lived”; on the other hand he has often been overlooked or marginalized by scholars and in literary histories.
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European Comic Art, 2019
Edward Lear has secured a prominent position in the history of literature and travel writing thanks to his nonsense books and his journals; he is considered one of the most innovative zoological illustrators of the nineteenth century and is being rediscovered as a landscape painter in watercolour and oil. This article argues that he also deserves to be
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Edward Lear has secured a prominent position in the history of literature and travel writing thanks to his nonsense books and his journals; he is considered one of the most innovative zoological illustrators of the nineteenth century and is being rediscovered as a landscape painter in watercolour and oil. This article argues that he also deserves to be
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Archives of Internal Medicine, 1965
It was probably some years ago that I looked in a catalogue of old second-hand books and saw for sale at the price of a guinea, 21 shillings, or in the coin of our realm about $3, a copy of Lear's Journals . I had had my eyes opened about Edward Lear even earlier when my wife showed me some books of perfectly fantastic pictures Lear had drawn of ...
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It was probably some years ago that I looked in a catalogue of old second-hand books and saw for sale at the price of a guinea, 21 shillings, or in the coin of our realm about $3, a copy of Lear's Journals . I had had my eyes opened about Edward Lear even earlier when my wife showed me some books of perfectly fantastic pictures Lear had drawn of ...
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Comparative Drama, 1979
Inhumanite de l'homme, espoir et conscience sociale coexistent dans l'univers de E. B. Parallele avec King Lear de Shakespeare.
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Inhumanite de l'homme, espoir et conscience sociale coexistent dans l'univers de E. B. Parallele avec King Lear de Shakespeare.
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