Imagine a world where “Alice in Wonderland” characters mingle with limerick legends such as “an old man with an owl” and the ...

However, limerick poems as we know them today first appeared in the 18th century. They were popularized in England by the writer Edward Lear in his first Book of Nonsense, published in 1846.

But the limerick was developed and popularized by Edward Lear 80 or 90 years ago. He was a young artist of 20 who had just published some colored plates of the rarer Psittacidae (parrots).

In 1846, a book of nonsense written by Edward Lear was first published ... along with raising the limerick to a new art form, Lear also distinguished himself as one of the first great author ...

Angus Davidson’s Edward Lear: Landscape Painter and Nonsense Poet (1938 ... usually convey some mysterious sense of happiness. That’s true of this limerick, where the picture that goes with it shows ...

Jenny Uglow, Edward Lear’s most sensitive biographer to date ... Uglow wisely analyses this limerick: There was an Old Man of Nepaul From his horse had a terrible fall But though quite split in two, ...

Like everyone who comes to Edward Lear's natural history paintings after his nonsense poems, I was completely bowled over," says Jenny Uglow, whose new biography, Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense, ...

King Charles and Queen Camilla have sent a heartfelt public message to Prince Edward in celebration of his 61st birthday on Monday. The royal couple paid tribute to the Duke of Edinburgh ...