Edward Lear wrote the pages to a young woman he befriended in Italy Previously unseen poems and letters written by Victorian nonsense poet Edward Lear have been found hidden in a private collection.

She was ambitious to revive Dowden's reputation as a poet. And Dent actually advertised a two-volume Poetical Works of Edward Dowden, counting its remake of the "old volume of Edward Dowden's Poems of ...

Much childhoodâ and adultâ delight can be attributed to a certain Edward Lear who conjured up ... with accompanying illustrations by the poet himself. As if mirroring his imagination ...