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Poets with tag Nonsense:

Literary nonsense (or nonsense literature) is a broad categorization of literature that balances elements that make sense with some that do not, with the effect of subverting language conventions or logical reasoning. Even though the most well-known form of literary nonsense is nonsense verse, the genre is present in many forms of literature.

The effect of nonsense is often caused by an excess of meaning, rather than a lack of it. Its humor is derived from its nonsensical nature, rather than wit or the "joke" of a punchline.

Name	Years	Country	Tags	Works	Rank
Edward Lear	1812-1888	ENG	Children, Humour, Nonsense, Victorian	159	46
Lewis Carroll	1832-1898	ENG	Children, Deism, Neoromanticism, Nonsense, Victorian	74	84
Rudyard Kipling	1865-1936	ENG	Children, Didactism, Freemasons, Modernism, Neoromanticism, Nonsense, Victorian, War	490	36
Carl Sandburg	1878-1967	USA	Children, Imagism, National, Nonsense, Others	452	71
James Joyce	1882-1941	IRL	Agnosticism, Difficult, Expressionism, Modernism, Nonsense	51	96
Theodore Roethke	1908-1963	USA	Formalism, Bipolar disorder, Nonsense	32	236
Spike Milligan	1918-2002	IRL	Children, Humour, Nonsense	51	77
Shel Silverstein	1930-1999	USA	Children, Humour, Nonsense	225	43

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