![]() ![]() ![]() Of his many neologisms, runcible appeared to be his favorite: he used it repeatedly, as in runcible cat, runcible raven, runcible wall, runcible hat, runcible goose. A great traveler himself, Lear sent his characters sailing off to the great Gromboolian plain or the hills of the Chankly Bore or the land where the bong-tree grows – place names that embody the exotic. He began with absurdist limericks, illustrated with his own simple, sometimes surreal, line drawings, and graduated to his longer story poems, of which The Owl and the Pussycat is the best known.Īlong the way, Lear invented bizarre characters, imaginary lands, and made-up words. Writing in the mid-nineteenth century, Lear single-handedly invented the nonsense genre. “Amiable lunacy.” This was George Orwell’s perfect description of Edward Lear’s poetry. ![]()
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