And what can we expect if we haven’t any dinner, But to lose our teeth and eyelashes and keep on growing thinner?
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They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.
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Birth: | 12th May, 1812 |
Death: | 29th January, 1888 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Author, Illustrator, Poet |
Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author and poet, and is known now mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised. His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to illustrate birds and animals; making coloured drawings during his journeys, which he reworked later, sometimes as plates for his travel books; as a illustrator of Alfred Tennyson's poems.
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