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How many musical settings of Tennyson's poetry did Edward Lear publish?

  • Twelve

  • Three

  • Twenty

  • Eighty

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Edward Lear published twelve musical settings of Tennyson's poetry. Lear was a British artist, illustrator, writer, and composer. He is best known for his limericks and nonsense poems, but he also produced a number of other works, including musical settings of Tennyson's poetry. Lear's musical settings were published in two volumes, "Songs from Tennyson" (1859) and "More Songs from Tennyson" (1861).
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