Talk:The Scroobious Pip

The Scroobious Pip was left unfinished by Lear in 1872, <re>Staff, Harriet. "The Anthony Madrid Version of Edward Lear's 'The Scroobious Pip'". Poetry Foundation. Poetry News. Retrieved 4/24/2015. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)</ref> due to this, the piece wasn't published until 1935 in a collectors edition, 950 copies in existence. Harvard University Press published Teapots And Quails which is a small book of Lear's poetry that includes The Scroobious Pip. Ogden Nash, an American Poet, was asked to finish the poem in 1968.<re>Staff, Harriet. "The Anthony Madrid Version of Edward Lear's 'The Scroobious Pip'". Poetry Foundation. Poetry News. Retrieved 4/24/2015. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)</ref> Tashiray (talk) 07:59, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Inspiration The Scroobious Pip and other of Lear's nonsense poems likely stemmed from the stories he told to children in his spare time while illustrating monographs for the London Zoo. Many of his works about animals, like The Scroobious Pip were inspired by his knowledge of biology and natural history. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mcintyrl (talk • contribs) 18:20, 24 April 2015 (UTC)