Edward Lear (Holloway, Middlesex, 1812komaiatzaren 12a - Sanremo, 1888kourtarrilaren 29a) ingeles artista, ilustratzaile, musikari, egile eta olerkaria izan zen. Artista bezala, nagusiki, bere hegaztien marrazkiengatik, bidaietako ilustrazioengatik eta Alfred Tennysonen olerkietako bere ilustrazioengatik ezagutzen da. Egile gisa, zentzurik gabeko literaturagatik oroitzen da. Grezia, Egipto, India eta Zeilanetik bidaiatu zuen. 1842tik 1846ra Italiako monumentuak ilustratu zituen.
There was a Young Person of Smyrna
Whose grandmother threatened to burn her. But she seized on the cat, and said 'Granny, burn that!
You incongruous old woman of Smyrna!'
Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots (1832)
Views in Rome and its Environs (1841)
Gleanings from the Menagerie at Knowsley Hall (1846)
Book of Nonsense (1846)
Illustrated Excursions in Italy (1846)
Mount Timohorit, Albania (1848)
Journal of a Landscape Painter in Greece and Albania (1851)
The falls of the Kalama Albania (1851)
Journal of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria (1852)
Poems and Songs by Alfred Tennyson (1853, 1859, 1860) Twelve total musical settings published, each being for a Tennyson poem.
Journal of a Landscape Painter in Corsica (1870)
Nonsense Songs and Stories (1870, dated 1871)
Tortoises, Terrapins, and Turtles (1872), introduction by J.E. Gray
More Nonsense Songs, Pictures, etc. (1872)
Laughable Lyrics (1877)
Nonsense Alphabets
Argos from Mycenae (1884), now in the collection of Trinity College, Cambridge
Nonsense Botany (1888)
Tennyson's Poems, illustrated by Lear (1889)
Facsimile of a Nonsense Alphabet (1849, but not published until 1926)
The Quangle-Wangle's Hat (1876)
Edward Lear's Parrots by Brian Reade, Duckworth (1949), including 12 coloured plates from Lear's Psittacidae
The Scroobious Pip, unfinished at his death, but completed by Ogden Nash and illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert (1968)
The Dong with a Luminous Nose, illustrated by Edward Gorey, Young Scott Books, NY (1969)
Another Edward Lear owl, in his more familiar style
Lear self-portrait, illustrating a real incident when he encountered a stranger who claimed that "Edward Lear" was merely a pseudonym. Lear (on the right) is showing the stranger (left) the inside of his hat, with his name in the lining.