edward lear

     

Though known for writing nonsense verse, he gave Queen Victoria drawing lessons & Tennyson wrote a poem to him

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  • His nonsense poem "The New Vestments" says, "his buttons were jujubes, and chocolate drops"
  • He penned the classic line "There was an old man with a beard, who said 'It is just as I feared'"
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Giza, Egypt.) In a letter, this 19th century limerick poet wrote about riding a camel, "Away you go, just as if on a rocking chair"
  • Tennyson addressed his poem "To E.L. on his Travels" to this "Nonsense" poet
  • From Season 11:British nonsense poet who wrote the 1877 poem "The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo"
  • (VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):He illustrated his own works like "There was a young lady whose chin, resembled the point of a pin"
  • "There was an old man with a beard, / Who said, 'It is just as I feared!'"

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