January 23 - Edward Lear

Edward Lear died January 29th 1888. He was an English artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned today primarily for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularized.

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The poem I’m reading is “There Was An Old Man With A Beard”.

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