Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Edward Lear
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
==Works== === Books === * ''[[Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots]]'' (1832) * ''Views in Rome and its Environs'' (1841) * ''Gleanings from the Menagerie and Aviary at Knowsley Hall'' (1846) * ''A Book of Nonsense'' (1846; revised and expanded in 1855 and 1861) * ''Illustrated Excursions in Italy'' (1846)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lear |first=Edward |url=https://archive.org/details/gri_33125010449219 |title=Illustrated excursions in Italy |date=1846 |publisher=London : T. M'Lean |others=Getty Research Institute}}</ref> * ''Journals of a Landscape Painter in Albania, etc.'' (1851)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lear |first=Edward |url=https://archive.org/details/journalsoflands00learuoft/ |title=Journals of a landscape painter in Albania, &c |date=1851 |publisher=London R. Bentley |others=Robarts - University of Toronto}}</ref> * ''Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria, etc.'' (1852)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lear |first=Edward |url=https://archive.org/details/journalsoflandsc00leariala/ |title=Journals of a landscape painter in southern Calabria, &c |date=1852 |publisher=[London] : R. Bentley |others=University of California Libraries}}</ref> * ''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), illustrated manuscript now in the [[British Library]]<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_47462| title = British Library}}</ref> * ''Journal of a Landscape Painter in Corsica'' (1870)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Edward Lear |url=https://archive.org/details/journalalandsca02leargoog |title=Journal of a Landscape Painter in Corsica |date=1870 |publisher=R.J. Bush |others=New York Public Library |language=English}}</ref> * ''Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets'' (1871)<ref>{{cite book|editor=Cox, Michael|title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=0-19-860634-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Edward Lear |url=https://archive.org/details/nonsensesongsst00leargoog |title=Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets |date=1871 |publisher=James R. Osgood and Company ... |others=Harvard University |language=English}}</ref> * ''Tortoises, Terrapins, and Turtles'' (1872), introduction by [[John Edward Gray|J. E. Gray]] * [[s:More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc.|''More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc.'']] (1872)<ref>{{cite book|title=Happy Birthday Edward Lear|location=Oxford|publisher=[[Ashmolean Museum]]|year=2012|isbn=978-1-85444-273-4|page=28}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Lear |first=Edward |url=https://archive.org/details/morenonsensepict00learrich |title=More nonsense, pictures, rhymes, botany, etc. |date=1872 |publisher=London : Robert John Bush, 32, Charing Cross, S.W. |others=University of California Libraries}}</ref> * ''The Quangle-Wangle's Hat'' (1876) * ''Laughable Lyrics: A Fresh Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, etc.'' (1877) === Illustrations === * ''Mount Timohorit, Albania'' (1848)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mount Timohorit, Albania, by Edward Lear, 1812-1888 |url=https://victorianweb.org/painting/lear/paintings/6.html |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=victorianweb.org}}</ref> * ''Argos from Mycenae'' (1884), now in the collection of [[Trinity College, Cambridge]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Trinity College, University of Cambridge |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/search/located_at/trinity-college-cambridge-5846_locations |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140511164255/http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/search/located_at/trinity-college-cambridge-5846_locations |archive-date=11 May 2014 |publisher=BBC Your Paintings}}</ref> === Posthumous publications and editions === * ''Edward Lear's Nonsense Books'' (1888)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lear |first=Edward |url=https://archive.org/details/nonsensebooks00lear2 |title=Nonsense books |date=1888 |publisher=Boston : Little, Brown |others=New York Public Library}}</ref> * ''Poems of [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]]'', illustrations by Edward Lear (1889) * ''Facsimile of A Nonsense Alphabet'' (text and illustrations from 1849, but not published until 1926) * ''Edward Lear's Nonsense Omnibus'' (1943)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Learʼs Edward |url=https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.470046/ |title=Nonsense Omnibus |date=1943 |publisher=Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd., New York}}</ref> * ''Edward Lear's Parrots'' by Brian Reade (Duckworth, 1949), includes 12 coloured plates from Lear's ''Psittacidae'' * ''Edward Lear in Greece: Journals of a Landscape Painter in Greece and Albania'' (1965) * ''[[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'' (from ''Laughable Lyrics''), illustrated by [[Edward Gorey]] (Young Scott Books, NY, 1969) * ''Edward Lear: The Corfu Years. A Chronicle Presented Through His Letters and Journals'' (1988) {{ISBN|0-907978-25-8}} * ''Edward Lear's Tennyson'', ed. Ruth Pitman (1988)
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Edward Lear
(section)
Add topic