The novel, based on Edward Lear’s journal, successfully brings to life the English nonsense poet’s year-long sojourn in India ...

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, ...

Reciting portions of Lear’s lengthy poem became second nature to my son ... to enjoy the silliness of Lear’s nonsense verse and the imagination of gifted illustrators who brought his composite ...

Jenny Uglow, Edward Lear’s most sensitive ... Uglow says that nonsense verse came to Lear when his mind was ‘off-duty’. She brings out the ironies and beauties of his most famous poem, ‘The Owl and ...

Introduction song A poem written to help us all start the day in the best possible way. Don't Michael has fun with the idea of things we're not supposed to do. Do I know you? A nonsense poem about ...

Uglow is an award-winning historian and biographer, and has previously written biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell, William Hogarth, Thomas Bewick and Edward Lear. Until 2013, she was the editorial ...

Below, you’ll find a selection of amusing poetry: Some imagine fun fantasy scenarios, some are just well-constructed limericks that poke fun at nonsense and others are poems for kids that will ...