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Jasmine Jagger provides a short introduction to Edward Lear, a literary nonsense author whose fanciful limericks and invented words inspired numerous fantasy authors. Dr Jagger lectured at Oxford (Jesus and Lady Margaret Hall), and is now a member of the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Roehampton. A transcript is available here.

Date Published: 27 July 2021
Contributors:
Jasmine Jagger
In Collection(s): Edward Lear, Fantasy Literature: Further Thinking
Cite: Edward Lear and Fantasy by Jasmine Jagger at via http://writersinspire.org/content/edward-lear-fantasy. Published on 27 July 2021. Accessed on 03 November 2025.

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