Edward Lear book of limericks 'improved' by comedy legend Barker sells for double its estimate at auction. Barker's copy of Edward Lear's Nonsense Verse sells for £3,600 at auction; ...

Edward Lear book of limericks 'improved' by comedy legend Barker up for auction. Barker's copy of Edward Lear's Nonsense Verse is expected to fetch £1,500 at auction; ...

What are limerick poems? These are some of the best limerick examples to find out. The post 12 Famous Limerick Poems and ...

May 12 (UPI) --National Limerick Day, celebrated annually on May 12, marks the birthday of Edward Lear, the English writer who popularized the comedic style of poetry. The holiday's exact origins ...

A book of Edward Lear's limericks that comedian Ronnie Barker changed to make funnier has sold for £3,600 at auction. The Two Ronnies star wrote his own versions of the poems alongside Lear's in ...

This Sunday on the Lyric Feature on RTÉ lyric fm, Sara Lodge presents The Limerick Man - the story of Edward Lear, and the influence of his visits to Ireland on his life and work. Lear (1812-88 ...

Limericks were popularized in the 19th century by the British humorist Edward Lear, although limerick examples are found in the works of authors as diverse as William Shakespeare and Dante Gabriel ...

More Nonsense, Edward Lear, was published in 1871. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images Lear also enjoyed hearing and playing other Irish songs, such as The Lament for Owen Roe O’Neill.

Lear’s typical limericks instead always insist on a repetitive last line: There was an Old Man on a hill, Who seldom, if ever, stood still; He ran up and down, In his Grandmother’s gown, Which ...

The lilting, five-line poems are centuries old, often bawdy and always silly. Thanks to Edward Lear, who published hundreds over his lifetime, limericks enjoyed a surge of popularity in the 1800s.