Edward Lear's Feelings: Laughter

Lear once spoke of 'this ludicrously whirligig life which one suffers from first and laughs at afterwards.' This programme studies the intertwining of the laughable and the lamentable in Lear's work, examining how serio-comic forms of expression explore mixed feelings.
Date Published: 15 February 2019
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Contributors: Matthew Bevis, Jasmine Jagger
In Collection(s): Edward Lear
Keywords: laughter, sadness, comedy, suffering
Cite: Edward Lear's Feelings: Laughter by Edward Lear at https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ via https://dev.writersinspire.it.ox.ac.uk/content/edward-lears-feelings-laughter. Published on 15 February 2019. Accessed on 14 May 2026.
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