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Edward Lear and Fantasy

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Fantasy Literature
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Jasmine Jagger provides a short introduction to Edward Lear.
Jasmine Jagger provides a short introduction to Edward Lear, a literary nonsense author whose fanciful limericks and invented words inspired numerous fantasy authors. Dr Jagger lectured at Oxford (Jesus and Lady Margaret Hall), and is now a member of the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Roehampton.

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Fantasy Literature
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Jasmine Jagger
Keywords
Edward Lear
fantasy
nonsense
limericks
neologisms
tolkien
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 18/07/2021
Duration: 00:10:37

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