The book was a huge success, not only making the author popular, but also boosting the limerick into popular culture across the world. One of the reasons why the genre of the extremely brief short story in prose, the short short, interests me so little is that, to my mind, poetry does this sort of thing so much better. International products have separate terms, are sold from abroad and may differ from local products, including fit, age ratings, and language of product, labeling or instructions. Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centres that host Etsy.

Nor does he seem to use any alliteration or internal rhyming, devices that can add a little something extra to the limerick. I understand you will use my personal data to improve services and send me marketing communications You must consent to the storage and use of your personal data as laid out in our privacy notice. What binds together Miss Susie’s escapades isn’t, Lord knows, meter or rhyme, but wordplay in a structural sense; a naughty play on words staples each stanza to the next.The concluding injunction may be parenthetical, but it is doubly emphatic, both italicized and exclamation pointed. It’s also to traffic in a language of ambivalence more emotionally authentic—truer to one’s own forever irreconcilably mixed outlook on life—than any simpler utterance. Until quite recently, few of these verses had ever appeared in print for public consumption, although many had been privately printed and circulated from time to time. Why this clinging so fervently to indirection, to doublespeak, to the sort of wordplay that seems to undermine the clarity and power of every assertion? Furthermore, he accompanies each and every limerick in the collection with a paragraph or two of commentary.

He is a professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and divides his time between Baltimore and Amherst, Massachusetts. Given the raw materials here—a limerick, a spirited young girl, and Nantucket serving as a rhyming word—we naturally assume we know the down-and-dirty precincts where it plans to venture. The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal. Unfortunately rather than being hardcover as described at time of sale, it was a paperback but it is in good condition .Please note that this just relates to gifts sent directly from Scribbler HQ and not those marked as being fulfilled by a partner supplier. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. Some of his creations strike me as just as assured of immortality as those of his great hero, Tennyson. ADD TO THE COLLECTION - Filled with 144 pages of hilarious, crazy, dirty and cheeky rhymes and illustrations, this is a great naughty addition to any 18+ book shelf! Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).

Filled with 144 pages of dirty limericks and NSFW rhymes, all paired with fun illustrations within a quality old-style hardback book, this inappropriate book of rhymes is the perfect parody book for friends with dark humour! When Edward Lear brought the limerick to public attention with his Book of Nonsense in 1846, it was more like a collection of nursery rhymes, intended for a very young audience. An idiosyncratic contract is quickly drawn up, whereby the reader is promised a pun—the more flagrant the better—in the last line of each quatrain. Then the merchant went down to the market-place and he saw me standing in the crowd and he came to me and said, Why did you make a threatening gesture to my servant when you saw him this morning?The King of Limericks is committed to the democratization of philosophy and spirituality, and to the idea that limericks can deliver something far more enriching than just dirty-minded double entendre. What’s more, even in this plainspoken moment, doublespeak may have insinuated itself with a buried pun: ( Right it!

On the other hand, Housman did have the compensation (not given to the rest of us) of knowing he’d composed one of the most heartbreaking tiny poems in the language. But if you ask me, you’ll be better off reading his Foundation Trilogy, a bona fide sci-fi masterpiece. This definitive collection of the world's rudest, lewdest limericks will perhaps finally bestow respectability upon stanzas long venerated in oral tradition. Lear was the unquiet possessor of a shameful secret (a gay sensibility) and, to him, a yet more shameful secret (epilepsy). If you’ve enjoyed reading about Isaac Asimov and his dirty limericks, please consider sharing the post or subscribing to the blog.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.