The Edward Lear Home Page has been online since 1994 and badly needs an updated interface and an easier way for me to keep it updated. This is therefore a preview of the forthcoming new site: for the moment I am concentrating on new information, i.e. bibliographies and discographies, mostly in the About Edward Lear section (which now boasts an introduction by Vivien Noakes).

The graphic at the top of each page is from a wonderful print of the "Owl and the Pussy-Cat" Norman McKnight sent me several years ago. A few may be left, and he says he will be working on a new Edward Lear project soon, so visit his Philoxenia Press page.

Why an Edward Lear page? Well, first of all because I like his nonsense very much, and then I wrote my thesis about him several years ago (don't worry, I'm not going to publish it!) so I am supposed to be widely read on the subject... Most important of all, however, is the fact that I haven't been able to find a great deal of Lear's nonsense poetry on the net and I think he deserves his small virtual space as much as his contemporary poetical colleague Lewis Carroll. After all, Lear may be considered the inventor of the term 'snail mail'.

That's it, if you share the Jumblies' spirit of adventure or your nose is as luminous as the Dong's, if you think there's nothing strange in living in the nest of an owl or your feelings are wrung with compuction, go on!