More of the nonsense poet Edward Lear’s “octopods” have been discovered in an archive along with a new fantastical creature known as a “pofflikopp”.
Two unseen poems and private letters written by the Victorian “nonsense poet” to his friend Mary Theresa Mundella have been discovered in a collection held by the British Library.
A portrait of Edward Lear in 1881
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Lear, whose most famous work is The Owl and the Pussy-cat, had coined the term “octopod” as an insult word for “vulgar crowds” of tourists — describing them in his famed The Octopods and Reptiles when they are “gabbling bothering, A most unpleasant flock”.
In the newly discovered poem — which was found by Amy Wilcockson, a PhD student at the University of Nottingham, in the Charnwood collection at the
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