Edward Lear

Edward Lear (Holloway, Middlesex, 1812ko maiatzaren 12a - Sanremo, 1888ko urtarrilaren 29a) ingeles artista, ilustratzaile, musikari, egile eta olerkaria izan zen. Artista bezala, nagusiki, bere hegaztien marrazkiengatik, bidaietako ilustrazioengatik eta Alfred Tennysonen olerkietako bere ilustrazioengatik ezagutzen da. Egile gisa, zentzurik gabeko literaturagatik oroitzen da. Grezia, Egipto, India eta Zeilanetik bidaiatu zuen. 1842tik 1846ra Italiako monumentuak ilustratu zituen.

Limerick ezagun egin zuen.

There was a Young Person of Smyrna
Whose grandmother threatened to burn her.
 But she seized on the cat,
 and said 'Granny, burn that!
You incongruous old woman of Smyrna!'

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 Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots (1832)
 Views in Rome and its Environs (1841)
 Gleanings from the Menagerie at Knowsley Hall (1846)
 Book of Nonsense (1846)
 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.
 Journal of a Landscape Painter in Corsica (1870)
 Nonsense Songs and Stories (1870, dated 1871)
 Tortoises, Terrapins, and Turtles (1872), introduction by J.E. Gray
 More Nonsense Songs, Pictures, etc. (1872)
 Laughable Lyrics (1877)
 Nonsense Alphabets Argos from Mycenae (1884), now in the collection of Trinity College, Cambridge
 Nonsense Botany (1888)
 Tennyson's Poems, illustrated by Lear (1889)
 Facsimile of a Nonsense Alphabet (1849, but not published until 1926)
 The Quangle-Wangle's Hat (1876)
 Edward Lear's Parrots by Brian Reade, Duckworth (1949), including 12 coloured plates from Lear's Psittacidae The Scroobious Pip, unfinished at his death, but completed by Ogden Nash and illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert (1968)
 The Dong with a Luminous Nose, illustrated by Edward Gorey, Young Scott Books, NY (1969)
 "Edward Lear: The Corfu Years" (1988) 
 The 1970 Saturday morning cartoon Tomfoolery'', based on the works of Lear and Lewis Carroll

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Ingalaterrako poetak
Ingalaterrako haur literaturako idazleak
Ingalaterrako fantasiazko idazleak
XIX. mendeko Ingalaterrako margolariak
Erresuma Batuko ilustratzaileak
Erresuma Batuko umoristak
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