EDWARD LEAR BIOGRAPHY
EDWARD LEAR BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
LEAR, EDWARD (1812-1888). —Artist and miscellaneous author, born in London, and settled in Rome as a landscape painter. He was an indefatigable traveller, and wrote accounts, finely illustrated, of his journeys in Italy, Greece, and Corsica. His best known works are, however, his Book of Nonsense (1840) (full of wit and good sense), More Nonsense Rhymes (1871), and Laughable Lyrics (1876). L. had also a remarkable faculty for depicting birds.