| Directory > Arts > Literature > Poetry > Forms > Light Verse > Limerick Bibliography of Limericks
List of print books of and on limericks, compiled by Karl Dilcher.
http://www.mscs.dal.ca/~dilcher/limericks.html
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The Limerick
A brief but insightful description of the limerick form.
http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Handbook/limerick.html
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Smithsonian Magazine - "The Limerick is Furtive and Mean..."
From the Maigue poets to Ogden Nash, witty wordsmiths have delighted in composing the oft-risqué
five-line verses. Introductory article.
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues02/sep02/limericks.html
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The Pentatette Home Page
The Limerick Special Interest Group website. Includes definitions, technical and scholarly
information on limericks.
http://limericks.org/pentatette/reply.html
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Meskhi lines
Limericks and short lines by Slava Meskhi. English, Russian and Georgian languages.
http://meskhi.kulichki.net/
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Poetic Limericks
Genuine poetry written in the limerick style. Background information on this style of poetry and
samples of the work of Joel D. Ash. Gateways to online books containing Poetic Limericks.
http://www.PoeticLimericks.com
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Limericks
A brief description and definition of the limerick form, along with an example.
http://library.advanced.org/3721/poems/forms/lime.html
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Edward Lear (1812 - 1888)
A page on Lear focusing on his use of the limerick form. Includes some of Lear's original
illustrations as well as the texts of various limericks.
http://cccw.adh.bton.ac.uk/schoolofdesign/MA.COURSE/01/LIALear.html
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Lear, Limericks and Literature
"An introduction to the limerick and other zany rhymes made famous by Edward Lear in the
1850's." An online lesson plan aimed at creative writing classes; includes information on the
history of the limerick form, as well as biographical material on Lear.
http://www.castlemoyle.com/lear/learte.htm
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Alien Limerick Generator
This interactive 'net artifact is an exercise in computer glossolalia that allows users to randomly
generate metrically perfect nonsense-limericks--in an "alien" (that is, not spoken, now
nor ever, on Earth) language.
http://www.herald.co.uk/~mel/limerick.html
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Limerick Discussion Page
Provides a simplified description of what makes up a limerick.
http://www.sfu.ca/~finley/discussion.html
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Limerick o' the Day
A daily (ribald) limerick, with an archive of previously featured limericks.
http://pagebuild.com/limerick/limerick.htm
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