There was an Old Person of Nice
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Poet Edward Lear 1812–1888
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Victorian
Subjects Arts & Sciences, Growing Old, Humor & Satire, Activities, Living, Pets, Relationships, Sports & Outdoor Activities
Poetic Terms Limerick
Biography
Vivien Noakes fittingly subtitled her biography of Edward Lear The Life of a Wanderer. On a literal level the phrase refers to Lear's constant traveling as a self-proclaimed "dirty landscape painter" from 1837 until he finally settled at his Villa Tennyson on the San Remo coast of Italy in 1880. But wandering, in that it suggests rootlessness, aimlessness, loneliness, and uncertainty, is also a metaphor for Lear's emotional life . . .
Poems by Edward Lear
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Arts & Sciences, Growing Old, Humor & Satire, Activities, Living, Pets, Relationships, Sports & Outdoor Activities
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Victorian
Poetic Terms Limerick
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