Five hundred American and British limericks are interspersed with anecdotes and historical comment
The Lure of the Limerick. (Second Edition.).
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 ...
[H323 DILYN FY NHRWYN 1980] H235 MERV: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1980 H235.1a First American edition [at right, in grey, 162 × 36 mm., reading down:} MERV | [at left, across, in block:] an autobiography | by | MERV GRIFFIN with | Peter ...