![]() ![]() While that reads like an insult, Lear is considered to be one of the founders of the genre of literary nonsense. the activities and the perception of people from various locales have changed considerably over the years.)Īs the book’s title suggests, what is on display in these limericks is nonsense. I suspect that the number that are found amusing would be larger for a reader from the early 19th century due to insider knowledge that escapes the present-day reader (i.e. While a number of the poems could be described as amusing, I can’t say I found any of them laugh-out-loud funny. I mention this because neither of these subjects feature prominently in Lear’s limericks. Two types of material leap to mind when one thinks of limericks: humor and bawdiness. Limericks are a popular five-line poetic form with an A – A – B – B – A rhyme scheme, and in which the B-lines are shorter than the A-lines. This is a collection of over one-hundred limericks by Edward Lear published in 1846. ![]()
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