Whose work was rumoured to have been pseudonymously written by the Earl of Derby ?

This was, of course, nonsense.

Here we go again! You keep making me talk dirty to you, Fred....

"Oh, lovely *****, oh, *****, my love,
What a beautiful ***** you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful ***** you are!"

Hmm. At least you didn't mention the dong.

All very strange. The juvenile feline is just that in Britain. Not so in France, where the female cat takes its American place, as it were.

Lear [Can we say that on TV?] is an anagram of Earl and both the 13th Earl and the man who some thought 'ill-tempered and queer' [Here we go again. Can we say that... ?] were named Edward. The Earl was one of Lear's patrons.

All lost on me : I only know of Edward Lear as a water-colourist whose works now sell for unaffordable sums of money. I see, from wikipedia, that he wrote books as well.Amazing !

PS I've just heard a nonsensical rumour that Jack Yeats' brother wrote some bad poetry about falconers and won a prize ! I suppose it may be true . If so , life for us aesthetes has unwelcome surprises