Limericks Pages

The Pentatette, the Limerick Special Interest Group periodical, now has a web home page with great graphics, a list of limerick books in print you can purchase through Amazon.com, introductory material and, of course, limericks.

Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling contains one of the first references to the five-line verse. The HTML text at Bibliomania is searchable.

Limericks are always fashionable, perhaps the last form of really popular poetry, there are a number of web sites devoted to them plus a gopher limerick collection, but no Lear limericks are to be found in them:

• A very short description of the limerick is at The Poetry of the Breakfast Club of Yale College, a longer one is available at Lear, Limericks & Literature
  Other descriptions:
  • The Lure of the Limerick.
  • The Path of Least Resistance proposes an edifying view.
  • Limerick Discussion Page.
  • Another description.
  • "Gradara Ludens" - Il Giro d'Europa in limerick has a limerick competition and some very good descriptions of the form, both in English and Italian.
• Waste Land Limericks by Wendy Cope is a parody of T.S. Eliot's Waste Land in five limericks.
• Alien Limerick Generator will now generate as many perfectly nonsensical limericks as you like, and they certainly look alien!
• Limerick o' the Day
  Limericks, mainly dirty ones, from Legman's collection.
• The WEBster Limericks and other Poetics.
• Limericks limericks limericks!
• Politically incorrect limericks
• Heard any good ones lately?
• The Toast Point Limerick Contest!
• Dulimer/Autoharp Limericks

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