The owls hen larks and their nests in his beard are among the fey fauna andpeculiar persons inhabiting the uniquely inspired nonsense rhymes and drawingsof Lear... » 

The owls hen larks and their nests in his beard are among the fey fauna andpeculiar persons inhabiting the uniquely inspired nonsense rhymes and drawingsof Lear 20th child of a London stockbroker whose Book of Nonsense firstpublished in 1846 stands alone as the ultimate and most loved expression inEnglish of freewheeling benign and unconstricted merriment. «