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| rdfs:comment | - One of Lear's limericks, "There Was an Old Man with a Beard," was used almost word for word on Sesame Street for an animated insert about the letter B. (EKA: Episode 2122). The poem was first published in Lear's Book of Nonsense (1846).
- Lear's first volume of nonsense work, A Book of Nonsense, was a collection of limericks he wrote for the grandchildren of his patron Lord Stanley, Earl of Derby. First published in 1846 and later expanded, it helped popularize the limerick form. Lear went on to write many more limericks and other forms of nonsense verse as well as short stories. His most famous poems include "The Owl and the Pussycat", "The Jumblies", "The Dong with a Luminous Nose", and "The Pobble Who Has No Toes". Edward Lear is one of the best known authors of literary nonsense along with Lewis Carroll.
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| abstract | - One of Lear's limericks, "There Was an Old Man with a Beard," was used almost word for word on Sesame Street for an animated insert about the letter B. (EKA: Episode 2122). The poem was first published in Lear's Book of Nonsense (1846).
- Lear's first volume of nonsense work, A Book of Nonsense, was a collection of limericks he wrote for the grandchildren of his patron Lord Stanley, Earl of Derby. First published in 1846 and later expanded, it helped popularize the limerick form. Lear went on to write many more limericks and other forms of nonsense verse as well as short stories. His most famous poems include "The Owl and the Pussycat", "The Jumblies", "The Dong with a Luminous Nose", and "The Pobble Who Has No Toes". Edward Lear is one of the best known authors of literary nonsense along with Lewis Carroll.
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