Edward Lear; The Owl and the Pussycat: This Is the Darker Side of Gay?

When you think of Edward Lear and The Owl and the Pussycat, you don't think gay or the darker side of anything. You think nonsense books, because that's what he's best known for writing. Poems that comfort you come to mind, and words like "runcible" spoon make you smile.

Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist , illustrator , author and poet, and is renowned primarily for his literary nonsense , in poetry and prose and especially his limericks , a form that he...