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Edward Lear (12 May 1812 [1] [2] – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised.
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In 1871 Edward Lear made fun of it in his nonsense parody "A was once an apple pie", which soon diverged into nursery language and then treated other subjects for the rest of the alphabet. [8] The illustrations in McLoughlin Brothers ' linen-mounted Apple Pie ABC (New York, 1888) appear to be largely dependent on the original work but the ...
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Reading of "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" is a nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first published in 1870 in the American magazine Our Young Folks [1] and again the following year in Lear's own book Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets.
"The Owl and the Pussy Cat" is a song for soprano and piano composed by Igor Stravinsky in 1966, based on the eponymous text by Edward Lear. It is Stravinsky's final completed original composition. Stravinsky had known Lear's poem prior to setting it as it had been the first English language verses his wife Vera had memorized.
Poem by Ujō Noguchi, a basis on factual events is disputed. Alphabet Song: Several other titles... [c] United States 1835 [14] The melody in this format was first copyrighted in 1835 by Boston music publisher Charles Bradlee. Alouette: Canada: 1870 [15] Mentiond in "A Pocket Song Book for the Use of Students and Graduates of McGill Colle". Baa ...
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