Tag: Nonsense

Edward Lear & The Vic­to­ri­an Nurs­ery  A rev­o­lu­tion­ary fig­ure in the his­to­ry of Eng­lish lit­er­a­ture, Edward Lear chal­lenged the con­ven­tions of the Vic­to­ri­an nurs­ery with what Orwell termed a “pol­ter­geist inter­fer­ence with com­mon sense.” [1] In his life­time, Lear attracted …

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