Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularized.Lear',s nonsense works are distinguished by a facility of verbal invention and a poet',s delight in the sounds of words, both real and imaginary. A stuffed rhinoceros becomes a ",diaphanous doorscraper",. A ",blue Boss-Woss", plunges into ",a perpendicular, spicular, orbicular, quadrangular, circular depth of soft mud",. His heroes are Quangle-Wangles, Pobbles, and Jumblies. His most famous piece of verbal invention, a ",runcible spoon", occurs in the closing lines of The Owl and the Pussycat, and is now found in many English dictionaries._,