Edward Lear was a man of many [?]...
Lear's limericks, on the other hand, could perhaps be said to be the Victorian version of today's [?] series...
Edward Lear was born in [?], England in 1812...
As a young man, Lear began to earn his living by illustrating [?] books on birds, and later on he became a landscape [?]...
The first edition of A Book of Nonsense was published in [?]...
Both Lewis [?] and Edward Lear are representatives of a special kind of prose writing that became very popular during the [?] age and was known as [?] writing...
Although he was born in England, Lear actually spent most of his adult life travelling [?]...