The “Nonsense” Botanical Illustrations of Victorian Artist-Poet Edward Lear (1871–77)
Because the Victorian period, Edward Lear’s “The Owl and the Pussy-Cat” has been, for generation upon generation within the English-speaking world, the sort of poem that one simply is aware of, whether or not one remembers actually having learn it or not. As with most such works that seep so permanently into the culture, it…