National Limerick Day, celebrated annually on May 12, marks the birthday of Edward Lear, the English writer who popularized the comedic style of poetry.

Ms Wilcockson found the pages, which contain a limerick about an old man on a bicycle, a poem and several letters, in a large collection of manuscripts known as the Charnwood Autograph Collection ...

Edward Lear is best known as the author of The Owl and the Pussy-cat and other delightful nonsense verses. But he was more than a poet. He made his living as an artist in watercolour and oils ...

Happy National Limerick Day 2016! Today is all about word play and rhymes to celebrate the birthday of English artist and writer Edward Lear.

This Sunday on the Lyric Feature on RTÉ lyric fm, Sara Lodge presents The Limerick Man - the story of Edward Lear, and the influence of his visits to Ireland on his life and work. Lear (1812-88 ...

Barker, who died in 2005, was unimpressed that Lear's limericks often featured the same word at the end of the first and last lines of the poems.

Previously unseen poems and letters written by Victorian nonsense poet Edward Lear have been found hidden in a private collection. The discovery was made by University of Nottingham PhD student ...

Previously unseen poems and letters written by Victorian nonsense poet Edward Lear have been found hidden in a private collection.