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Limericks: Historical and Hysterical

By Ray Allen Billington
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By Ray Allen Billington
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The limerick, one of the oldest and most challenging of verse forms, has traditionally been the plaything of Oxford dons, American academicians, and a sprinkling of men of wit. Historian Ray Allen Billington worked on his own collection for fifty years. Here is the cream of that collection—original and classical limericks, irreverent, spicy, funny, and, of course, suggestive.

The book is divided into several parts: the historical uses of the limerick, concentrating on the American frontier a...

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HumorPoetryGeneral & Miscellaneous PoetryLimericks & VersePoetry - General & Miscellaneous