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Edward Lear

British1812–1888

Portrait of Edward Lear

About

Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised but which term he never used.

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35 works

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