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Edward Lear

English author and artist famous for his nonsense poems

Did you know?He began his career as an illustrator of birds and animals before writing his famous literature.

Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) 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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