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Edward Lear's Feelings
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This programme examines different meanings of 'wonder' in Lear - as both a positive and a negative emotion, and as something in between.
It studies his paintings alongside his nonsense, and closes with a reading of his poem 'Some Incidents in the Life of My Uncle Arly'.

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Edward Lear's Feelings
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Jasmine Jagger
Keywords
wondering
wandering
sublimity
biography
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 04/04/2018
Duration: 00:05:55

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