Author:Edward Lear

Edward Lear
(1812–1888)

Edward Lear in 1866

Works

Poems

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Gleanings from the menagerie and aviary at Knowsley Hall. By John Edward Gray, 1846 vol 1, vol 2

Works about Lear

• "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)