Poetic Obituaries: With the publication in 1968 of

Edward Lear: The Life of a Wanderer, Vivien Noakes, who has died of a stroke aged 74, achieved instant status as the leading authority on Lear. This position was reinforced with successive editions of the biography; her curating of the Royal Academy's Lear exhibition in 1985; a selection from Lear's vast correspondence, published in 1988; a survey of his work as a painter in 1991; and her edition of The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense for Penguin in 2001, republished the following year as The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse.

Vivien also became a leading scholar of the war poet Isaac Rosenberg.

from The Guardian: Vivien Noakes obituary

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