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Books, Periodicals, and more ...

Arts Council of Great Britain. Edward Lear, an exhibition of oil paintings, water-colors. 1958.
Baring-Gould, William Stuart, The lure of the limerick: an uninhibited history, C. N. Potter [c1967]
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 13 & 14. Edward Lear and Limerick (Vol. 14, page 37 & 38 )
Cerf, Bennett, Out on a limerick; a collection of over 300 of the world's best, Harper [1960]
Chitty, Susan, Lady, That singular person called Lear: a biography of Edward Lear, Atheneum, 1989, c1988.
Davidson, Angus, Edward Lear, landscape painter and nonsense poet, 1812-1888. Penguin [1950]
Hofer, Philip, Edward Lear. Oxford University Press, 1952.
Hofer, Philip, Edward Lear as a landscape draughtsman, Belknap Press of Har 1967.
Kamen, Gloria, Edward Lear, king of nonsense: a biography, Atheneum, 1990.
Kelen, Emery, Mr. Nonsense: a life of Edward Lear, T. Nelson [1973]
Lear, Edward, How pleasant to know Mr. Lear: Edward Lear's selected works, Holiday House, 1982.
-----, The complete nonsense of Edward Lear, Dover Publications [c1951]
-----, Later letters of Edward Lear, author of "The book of nonsense," Unwin, 1911.
-----, The nonsense verse of Edward Lear, Harmony Books, c1984.
-----, Indian journal; watercolours and extracts from the diary of Edward Lear, Coward-McCann {1955?]
-----, Letters of Edward Lear, author of "The book of nonsense," to Chi T.F. Unwin, 1907.
-----, An Edward Lear alphabet, Lothrop, Lee & Shepa 1983.
-----, A book of bosh : lyrics and prose of Edward Lear, Puffin Books, 1975.
Lehmann, John, Edward Lear and his world, Scribner, c1977.
Levi, Peter. Edward Lear: a biography, Scribner, 1995.
Moss, Howard, Writing against time; critical essays and reviews. Morrow, 1969.
Noakes, Vivien, Edward Lear; the life of a wanderer. Houghton Mifflin, 1969 [c1968]
-----, Edward Lear, 1812-1888, H.N. Abrams, 1986, c1985.
-----, The Animal tale treasury , Putnam, 1986.
Reed, Langford (ed.), The Complete Limerick Book (1925)
Rosenbloom, Joseph. The looniest limerick book in the world, Sterling, c1982.
Vaughn, Stanton. Limerick lyrics, G. Sully and Co. [c1906]
Yrom, Thomas. Nonsense and wonder: the poems and cartoons of Edward Lear, Dutton, c1977.
Mr. Punch's limerick book; Loring & Mussey, 1935.
The Limerick: 1700 examples, with notes, variants and index. Citadel Press, 1979.
The Limerick : 1700 examples, with notes, variants and index. Bell Pub. Co., c1969.

Videos

Happy birthday, Moon and other stories for young children Children's Circle [1989?], c1971.
The Pigs' wedding and other stories Children's Circle 1990.

Multimedia

Lear, Edward, Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense. (illustrated). MAXIMA New Media, Kokhav Yair, Israel. c.1995

World Wide Web Sites ...

    At the time of the writing of this lesson plan these sites had no objectionable material, however things change and not all links from these sites were checked. I suggest you download the limericks and check them carefully before presenting them to your students.

MAXIMA New Media Creators of the "Animated Artist Series," of which Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense is the first book. More Nonsense is expected in Fall, 1996.

There once was a man from Nantucket... An ongoing Progressive Limerick (original verses from 1925).

Excerpts from "Waiting Room Limericks" Not just for doctors!

The SETI League, Inc. Winning Limericks

The Toast Point Limerick Contest - Structure

The "Italian" Edward Lear. Lear spent a great portion of his life in Italy. Here's an Italian web site with some very interesting material.

The WEBster: Limericks and other Poetics

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