The Mind Creative
The following limerick, in fact, summarises Legman’s views very
well indeed!
The limerick packs laughs anatomical
Into space that is quite economical.
But the good ones I've seen
So seldom are clean
And the clean ones so seldom are comical
Popularity of the limerick
The limerick appeared throughout Irish and British literature in
the mid-19th century, most notably in Edward Lear’s A Book of
Nonsense. Lear is widely considered to be responsible for the
popularity of this form of poetry. In fact, the magazine Punch ran
limerick contests and started the “limerick craze”.
By the end of the century, famous poets and writers like Alfred
Lord Tennyson, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Rudyard Kipling,
Robert Louis Stevenson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Mark Twain
experimented with the form. Limericks became the subject of
weekly newspaper contests, with large prizes awarded and the
easy creation of limericks infused with h [[