Five hundred American and British limericks are interspersed with anecdotes and historical comment
The Lure of the Limerick. (Second Edition.).
Lure of the limerick
The Secret of Humor
... Lure of the Limerick: An Uninhibited History. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1967. Bishop, Morris. Spilt Milk. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1942. Cerf, Bennett. Bennett Cerf's Out on a Limerick: A Collection of Over 300 of the ...
A collection of more than 1,800 comical limericks.
The other extraordinarily mad poem (nanakusa no kayui tokoro e te no todoku niwa no wakana o mago ni tsumasemu) means more or less What a relief to have all seven herbs for charm-broth in my garden, ...
Political satire of the late 17th and early 18th cs. enlisted the ballad form in miscellanies such as The Covent Garden ... (1999); M. E. Brown, William Motherwell's Cultural Politics (2001); Singing the Nations: Herder's Legacy, ed.
Explorations in the Field of Nonsense
... limerick, especially Gershon Legman (The Limerick, Les Hautes Etudes, 1953), W.S. Baring-Gould (The Lure of the Limerick, Panther Books, 1968) and that erudite oddball, Norman Douglas, whose collection with commentary, Some Limericks ...