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It is probably no real surprise that Edward Lear sensed the necessity to make children laugh. He was created in 1812 in North London, youngest-but-one of 21 children. Money problems resulted in his going out of home at the age of four with an older sister, who taken care of him as a mother until she died. His health was always poor, and, while still young, he began suffering from unhappiness, which he called "The Morbids". A professional artist, his declining eyesight triggered him to change from the thorough painting of parrots to producing panoramas for travel literature. He travelled greatly and ended his life in Italy. He never hitched, and overdue in life relied for companionship on his kitten, Foss, and on his Albanian chef, Giorgis - who was simply apparently a much better friend than a chef. The enjoyment of Lear's Limericks - a form which he made popular - are his complete disregard for reasoning and his love of words - boldly inventing new ones if nothing better came to hand. An designer, a musician, a composer, a enthusiast of poetry. It is a bitter-sweet thought that such a gifted man, who struggled to find enjoyment in his own life, leaves, as a legacy, a book to make children laugh. There was a vintage Derry down Derry,
Who cherished to see little people merry;
So he made them a book, and with laughter they shook
At the fun of this Derry down Derry.
