There was an Old Man with a Beard
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Poet Edward Lear 1812–1888
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Victorian
Subjects Relationships, Growing Old, Nature, Humor & Satire, The Body, Living, Pets, Arts & Sciences, Animals
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 Relationships, Growing Old, Nature, Humor & Satire, The Body, Living, Pets, Arts & Sciences, Animals
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Victorian
Poetic Terms Limerick
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