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While most contemporary nonsense has been written for children, the form has an extensive history in adult configurations before the nineteenth century. Figures such as John Hoskyns, Henry Peacham, [[John Sandford (poet)|John Sandford]], and [[John Taylor (poet)|John Taylor]] lived in the early seventeenth century and were noted nonsense authors in their time.<ref>Malcolm, p. 127.</ref> Nonsense was also an important element in the works of [[Flann O'Brien]] and [[Eugène Ionesco]]. Literary nonsense, as opposed to the folk forms of nonsense that have always existed in written history, was only first written for children in the early nineteenth century. It was popularized by [[Edward Lear]] and then later by [[Lewis Carroll]]. Today, literary nonsense enjoys a shared audience of adults and children.