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Edward Lear

NOUN
  1. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888)

How To Use Edward Lear In A Sentence

  • Based on the life and nonsense poems of Edward Lear, the show was nominated for a Total Theatre Award and widely praised by the critics.
  • In English, Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll are its best-known exponents.
  • It is a literary fable, populated with characters who are half escapees from Edward Lear's nonsense verse and half punks, well-crafted and certainly good for anyone wanting an unputdownable read where you might also learn something new.
  • As a great practitioner of nonsense verse, Edward Lear initiated the creation of nonsense in bulk. Many of his aesthetic devices were later widely borrowed.
  • Its discoverer, Thomas Hodgkin, was a thin, short, nineteenth-century English anatomist with a spadelike beard and an astonishingly curved nose—a character who might have walked out of an Edward Lear poem. The Emperor of All Maladies
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