An Alphabet by Edward Lear - A Was Once an Apple Pie - Poem

Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, now known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised. As an author, he is known principally for his popular nonsense collections of poems, songs, short stories, botanical drawings, recipes, and alphabets. He also composed and published twelve musical settings of Tennyson’s poetry. In 1846 Lear published A Book of Nonsense, a volume of limericks which went through three e