Edward Lear

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"There was an old man in a tree, who was horribly bored by a bee" Edward Lear $400 DJ DEAD POETS 2015-01-20 #6987
One of his many nonsense verses says, "On the top of the Crumpetty Tree the Quangle Wangle sat" Edward Lear $800 DJ POET-TREE 2012-03-07 #6328
"There was an old man with a beard, / Who said, 'It is just as I feared!'" Edward Lear $1,200 DJ NAME THE POET 2007-12-04 #5347
His nonsense poem "The New Vestments" says, "his buttons were jujubes, and chocolate drops" Edward Lear $400 DJ POETS & POETRY 2000-11-02 #3719
Born in Highgate in 1812, he was nicknamed "Poet Laureate of the Limerick" Edward Lear $1,000 DJ POETS 1995-05-10 #2473
Nonsense poet who wrote about the Jumblies "who went to sea in a sieve" Edward Lear $400 DJ POETRY 1987-12-29 #767
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