I loved the British tradition of watercolor paintings and had already started to collect Edward Lear.

因为喜欢英国传统的水彩画，所以我就开始收集爱德华·利尔的作品。

Edward Lear who invented such imaginary things as runcible spoons is also credited with popularizing if not inventing limericks.

假如五行打油诗不是爱德华·里尔发明的话，那么他至少也使其流行开来了——他还创造了诸如“叉匙”这种极富想象力的东西。

As a great practitioner of nonsense verse, Edward Lear initiated the creation of nonsense in bulk. Many of his aesthetic devices were later widely borrowed.

爱德华。李尔是胡说诗的伟大践行者，他开创了大量创作胡说诗的先河，他的许多艺术手法后来被广为借鉴。