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Edward Lear’s Beer Nonsense

May 12, 2019 By Jay Brooks

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Today is the birthday of English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet Edward Lear (May 12, 1812–January 29, 1888). He is “known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised. His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to illustrate birds and animals; making coloured drawings during his journeys, which he reworked later, sometimes as plates for his travel books; as a (minor) illustrator of Alfred, Lord Tennyson‘s poems. As an author, he is known principally for his popular nonsense collections of poems, songs, short stories, botanical drawings, recipes, and alphabets. He also composed and published twelve musical settings of Tennyson’s poetry.”

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Given the time he lived, not to mention the place, you probably won’t be surprised to learn that beer and ale come up in his work from time to time. Here are a few examples of that from his nonsense books.

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Lear-old-columbia-2
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Lear-X
Lear-owl-2
Lear-Old-man-owl
Here’s an original sketch of the same Old Man with an Owl panel.
Lear-porter

Filed Under: Beers, Just For Fun Tagged With: England, Great Britain, Literature, Poetry



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