Literary nonsense from a combination of both sources. Though not the first to write this hybrid kind of nonsense, Edward Lear developed and popularized it in his many limericks (starting with "A Book of Nonsense", 1846) and other famous texts such as "The Owl and the Pussycat", "The Dong with a Luminous Nose," "" and "The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Around the World". Lewis Carroll continued this trend, making literary nonsense a worldwide phenomenon with "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1865) and "Through the Looking-Glass" (1871). Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky", which appears in the latter book, is often considered quintessential
Edward Lear "How Pleasant to know Mr. Lear," ends with this stanza, a reference to his own mortality: Five of Lear's limericks from the Book of Nonsense, in the 1946 Italian translation by Carlo Izzo, were set to music for choir a cappella by Goffredo Petrassi in 1952. Edward Lear has been played in radio dramas by Andrew Sachs in "The Need for Nonsense" by Julia Blackburn (BBC Radio 4, 9 February 2009) and by Derek Jacobi in "By the Coast of Coromandel" by Lavinia Murray (BBC Radio 4, 21 December 2011). Edward Lear Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January