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Limericks (Poetry Basics)
Library Binding, 32 pages
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by Creative Education
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The good people at Creative Education were kind enough to send me copies of the four titles in Valerie Bodden's series of Poetry Basics. Alphabetically, they are Concrete Poetry, Haiku, Limericks, and Nursery Rhymes.
In each of the books in the series, Bodden not only provides historical context for the particular form or type of poetry discussed, but also provides and explanation as to what the form is, and how to write it, along with a glossary, a bibliography and a list of books for ...more
In each of the books in the series, Bodden not only provides historical context for the particular form or type of poetry discussed, but also provides and explanation as to what the form is, and how to write it, along with a glossary, a bibliography and a list of books for ...more
Without so much as a passing mention about the man from Nantucket or the young lady from Lynn, Bodden explains the history of the limerick (a form that predated its actual name). The form predates Edward Lear's A Book of Nonsense, published in 1846, but it's Lear's work that helped cement the form as one popular with children. The rhyme scheme and rhythm of the form are explained, as are poetic terms such as alliteration. The book extends to other forms of nonsense poems and to poems using nonsense words (such as Lewis Carroll's portmanteau words), including a brief discussion and sample of Carroll's "Jabberwocky".
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