Category Archives: Limerick

The Limerick Craze!

Posted on February 7, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

A number of early limerick books are now available for your online enjoyment, including the four published in the 1820s that inspired Edward Lear: The History of Sixteen Wonderful Old Women. Illustrated with as many engravings; exhibiting their principal eccentricities … Continue reading →

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Three Lear Limericks

Posted on February 7, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

Although it may sound sacrilegious, some artists have actually chosen to re-illustrate the verses in Edward Lear’s A Book of Nonsense. These Latter Day Neo Reform Limericks keep popping up everyday in bookshops. It’s not that Lear didn’t get it, … Continue reading →

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Ye Book of Sense

Posted on January 26, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

Arthur Deex has digitized two more early limerick books, Ye Book of Bubbles (1864) and Ye Book of Sense (c1870), and writes of the latter: A Review in the May 88 Pentatette A recent addition to my collection was a … Continue reading →

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A Limerick Alphabet by Edmund Dulac

Posted on January 17, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

Arthur Deex has acquired a very nice copy of a rare book of limericks and has kindly chosen to share it: Lyrics Pathetic and Humorous from A to Z by Edmund Dulac (1882-1953) is a delightful Alphabet Book of 24 … Continue reading →

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Fol-the-rol-lol

Posted on November 23, 2005 by Marco Graziosi

The recently launched Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara, provides a great collection of early recordings from the Edison era. Among these Edward M. Favor‘s Fol-the-rol-lol is one of my favourites, at least since … Continue reading →

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The Limerick's Origins

Posted on March 17, 2004 by Marco Graziosi

There once was a wee humble ditty By Shannon RoeToday being St. Patrick’s Day, the least we can do is doff our derbies to that bit of Irish doggerel called the limerick. From its name, you might think this five-line … Continue reading →

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The Limerick Challenge

Posted on October 17, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

The Limerick Challenge To mark National Poetry Day, you are formally invited to join the Magazine’s Limerick Challenge.BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | 9 October 2003

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The Real Limerick

Posted on July 9, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

The Real Limerick Again, a newgroup message discussing my “dry treatise” on the limerick in some detail. Intersting for the limericks by Swinburne it quotes.

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"The Limerick is Furtive and Mean…"

Posted on August 26, 2002 by Marco Graziosi

“The Limerick is Furtive and Mean…” From the Maigue poets to Ogden Nash, witty wordsmiths have delighted in composing the oft-risqu� five-line verses.[Nice article, though it repeats the myth of the Irish origin of the limerick and does not mention … Continue reading →

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How Come the Translation of a Limerick Can Have Four Lines (Or Can It?)

Posted on May 1, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

How Come the Translation of a Limerick Can Have Four Lines (Or Can It?) by Gideon Toury in: Word, Text, Translation: Liber Amicorum for Peter Newmark,eds Gunilla Anderman & Margaret Rogers. Clevedon etc.: Multilingual Matters, 1999, 163-174.

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