In this offbeat volume of four Lear verses, Willey (The Golden Hoard: Myths and Legends of the World) conjures a dream-realm of dark skies and vaguely unearthly animals. Asymmetrical windows of rich ...

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“It is queer,” Edward Lear once wrote to a friend, “that I am the man as is making some three or four thousand people laugh in England all at one time. . . .” But to staid and sensible Victorians, who ...

EDWARD LEAR has waited fifty-one years for his biographer. In that half century his renown as a writer of nonsense verse, and to a lesser degree as a comic artist, has carried his name throughout the ...