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Edward Lear's Feelings
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This programme introduces Lear and outlines the structure of the programmes.
Each episode will take on a different emotion or affect - wonder, disgust, laughter, tears - and offer some approaches to Lear by looking at how his feelings become entwined with his words, his pictures, and his thoughts.

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Lear once spoke of 'this ludicrously whirligig life which one suffers from first and laughs at afterwards.'
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‘Edward Lear’s Vision’, by Professor Matthew Bevis

A talk given at the Ashmolean Museum on Edward Lear’s life, art, and poetry.
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Edward Lear's Feelings
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Matthew Bevis
Keywords
introduction
feelings
nonsense
poetry
Edward Lear
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 04/04/2018
Duration: 00:04:31

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