The Limerick: 1700 Examples, With Notes, Variants and Index

by Anonymous

There have been many anthologies of limericks, but this huge collection of 1700 of them is a treasure trove indeed. It contains the richest and juiciest erotic stanzas the editor could cull from the vast body of limericks produced between 1870 and 1952.

This collection was first published privately in Paris in 1957 in a limited edition. Very few copies found their way to this country.

The limerick is, by definition, a five-line verse with a distinctive metrical structure. There have been clean limericks, of course, but the most popular form is a bawdy rhyme involving the sexes in ribald situations.

Once banned from the nation's bookshelves, the limerick has taken advantage of the new moral climate to "come out." This book offers examples from all over the Western world - a limerick for every taste.

Included are copious notes and an extensive bibliography.

Genres: Reference

517 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1976

About the author

Books can be attributed to "Anonymous" for several reasons:

* They are officially published under that name
* They are traditional stories not attributed to a specific author
* They are religious texts not generally attributed to a specific author

Books whose authorship is merely uncertain should be attributed to Unknown.

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Reviews

[Roger · Rating 2 out of 5]

I have been reading The Limerick at the rate of twenty pages a night for a while now. At first this book was amusing-for about the first forty pages. After that it became an exercise in masochism. However typically I am no quitter, so I chose to persevere. Surely this book wins some type of award for Raunchiest Book I Have Ever Read-it even beats out Vance Randolph's Pissing in the Snow. I truly loathed it before I finished-I found it incredibly wearying. Fun fact: Limericks are not always five lines long. There that's a thing you know now.