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Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, now known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised. As an author, he is known principally for his...\n
Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, now known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised. As an author, he is known principally for his popular nonsense collections of poems, songs, short stories, botanical drawings, recipes, and alphabets. He also composed and published twelve musical settings of Tennyson's poetry. In 1846 Lear published A Book of Nonsense, a volume of limericks which went through three editions and helped popularize the form and the genre of literary nonsense. In 1871 he published Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets, which included his most famous nonsense song, The Owl and the Pussycat, which he wrote for the children of his patron Edward Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby. Many other works followed. I hope you enjoy this video I have illustrated and animated of one of his famous alphabets A was once an apple pie,PidyWidyTidyPidyNice insidyApple Pie!B was once a little bear,Beary!Wary!Hairy!Beary!Taky cary!Little Bear!C was once a little cake,CakyBakyMakyCakyTaky Caky,Little Cake!D was once a little doll,DollyMollyPollyNollyNursy DollyLittle Doll!E was once a little eel,Eely,WeelyPeelyEelyTwirly, TweedyLittle Eel!F was once a little fish,FishyWishySquishy FishyIn a DishyLittle Fish!G was once a little goose,GoosyMoosyBoosyGooseyWaddly-woosyLittle Goose!H was once a little hen,HennyChennyTennyHennyEggsy-anyLittle Hen?I was once a bottle of ink,InkyDinkyThinkyInkyBlack MinkyBottle of Ink!J was once a jar of jam,JammyMammyClammyJammySweety-SwammyJar of Jam!K was once a little kite,KityWhityFlightyKityOut of sighty-Little Kite!L was once a little lark,Larky!Marky!Harky!Larky!In the Parky,Little Lark!M was once a little mouse,MouseyBouseySousyMousyIn the HousyLittle Mouse!N was once a little needle,NeedlyTweedlyThreedlyNeedlyWisky-wheedlyLittle Needle!O was once a little owl,OwlyProwlyHowlyOwlyBrowny fowlyLittle Owl!P was once a little pump,PumpySlumpyFlumpyPumpyDumpy, ThumpyLittle Pump!Q was once a little quail,QuailyFailyDailyQuailyStumpy-tailyLittle Quail!R was once a little rose,RosyPosyNosyRosyBows-y - grows-yLittle Rose!S was once a little shrimp,ShrimpyNimpyFlimpyShrimpyJumpy-jimpyLittle Shrimp!T was once a little thrush,Thrushy!Hushy!Bushy!Thrushy!Flitty-FlushyLittle Thrush!U was once a little urn,UrnyBurnyTurnyUrnyBubbly-burnyLittle Urn!V was once a little vine,VinyWinyTwinyVinyTwisty-twinyLittle Vine!W was once a whale,WhalyScalyShalyWhalyTumbly-tailyMighty Whale!X was once a great king Xerxes,XerxyPerxyTurxyXerxyLinxy LurxyGreat King Xerxes!Y was once a little yew,YewdyFewdyCrudyYewdyGrowdy, grewdy,Little Yew!Z was once a piece of zinc,TinkyWinkyBlinkyTinkyTinkly MinkyPiece of Zinc! I Need to Start Writing Things Down by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence ( Source Artist Please subscribe for free to my channel for more fun and educational videos for kids Follow Pure Star Kids on social media: Twitter: @purestarkids Instagram: purestarkids Facebook: purestarkids\n
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