Edward Lear

Edward Lear was a man who Agatha Christie compared the Tenth Doctor to after hearing lots of technobabble and talk of other worlds from him. She could not understand a word. (TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp)

Behind the scenes

 * The real-world poet is famous for his "".
 * In the comic story After Life, Alice Obiefune reads from Lear's poem The Jumblies, which includes words like "torrible" and "Chankley Bore". Neither the poem nor the author are named in the story.