Edward Lear Poetry - Edward Lear (May 12, 1812 - January 29, 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, writer, and poet, best known today primarily for literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form which he popularized.
Biography Edward Lear Poetry - Lear was born into a middle class family in the village of Holloway, the son of Ann and Jeremiah Lear 21. He was raised by his older brother, also named Ann, 21 years his senior. Lear and Ann are very fond of her mother kept him until his death, when Lear nearly 50 years. Because the family's financial fortunes fail, at the age of four he and his brother had to leave the family home and set up house together.
Lear suffered from health problems. From the age of six he suffered frequent grand mal epileptic seizures, and bronchitis, asthma, and in later life, partial blindness. Lear experienced his first seizure at Highgate near the fair with his father. The event was scared and embarrassed him. Lear felt lifelong guilt and shame for his epileptic condition. Adult diaries indicate that he always felt the onset of seizures in time to remove himself from public view. How Lear is able to anticipate the unknown, but many people with epilepsy report ringing in their ears (tinnitus) or aura before the onset of seizures. At the time of Lear's epilepsy was believed to be associated with demonic possession, which contribute to feelings of guilt and loneliness. When Lear is about seven he began to show signs of depression, probably due to the constant instability of his childhood. He suffered from severe depression period that he calls "Morbids."
Lear by Wilhelm Marstrand
Lear traveled widely throughout his life and eventually settled in Sanremo, on the Mediterranean coast of his beloved, in the 1870s, at a villa called "Villa Tennyson." The closest he came to the wedding are the two proposals, both for the same woman 46 years younger, is not acceptable. To a friend he relied only on a circle of friends and correspondents, and especially, in the future, in his chef Suliot Albania, Giorgis, a loyal friend and, as Lear complained, a cook thoroughly unsatisfactory. Another trusted companion in Sanremo is her cat, Foss, who died in 1886 and was buried with some ceremony at a park in Villa Tennyson. After a long decline in health, Lear died at his villa in 1888, of heart disease from which he suffered at least since 1870. Lear's funeral is said to be the affair, sad lonely by the wife of Dr. Hassall, physician Lear, not one of the many lifelong friends Lear could attend.
Lear was buried in the Cemetery Foce in Sanremo. On his gravestone is written, the lines on the Mount Tomohrit (Albania) from which Tennyson To EL [Edward Lear], on his trip in Greece:
Tomohrit, Athos, all things fair.
With a pencil, like a pen.
You shadow forth to distant men,
I read and felt that I was there. [5]
Edward Lear is known to introduce himself with a long name: "Mr. Abebika kratoponoko Prizzikalo Kattefello Ablegorabalus Ableborinto phashyph" or "the Cozovex Chakonoton Fossi Dossi Here Tomentilla Coronilla Battledore Polentilla & Kok Derry down Derry Dumps" is based on Aldiborontiphoskyphorniostikos.
One hundred years of his death was marked in England by a set of Royal Mail stamps in 1988 and the exhibition at the Royal Academy. Lear's birthplace regions are now badged with a plaque in Bowman Mews, Islington in London and its bicentennial in 2012 was celebrated with various events, exhibitions and lectures at venues throughout the world including the International Owl and the Pussycat Day on his birthday. On this day he is honored by Google Doodle describe the Owl and the Pussycat dancing.
