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Why Lear would play the fool Noel Malcolm praises this updated Life of Edward Lear which makes sense of the great writer of nonsense
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Edward Lear: The Life of a Wanderer (revised edition)
by Vivien Noakes
Sutton, pounds 25, 311 pp
pounds 23 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222
"HOW PLEASANT to know Mr Lear!" is probably the one statement
about Edward Lear that most people could quote. But the truth is that
most people do not know Mr Lear at all. They think of him primarily
as a writer of nonsense, the rear end of that popular pantomime horse
of children's literature, Carroll-and-Lear; if they are aware that he
was also an artist, they think of him as a nonsense-writer who also
dabbled in painting.
But the dabbling was the other ...
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NO SHAKESPEAREAN KING, THIS LEAR MILDLY AMUSING.(Arts and Entertainment)(Review)
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There Once Was a Man Name of Lear
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Knowing Mr. Lear and his limericks
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Edward Lear.
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Iris Murdoch and the Lear that never was The novelist's widower accuses Christie's after claims that a picture she once owned - which they wrongly identified - contributed to a suicide. Catherine Milner reports
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TALK OF THE TOWN: Lear in Corfu and Cephalonia - Painting by numbulls
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