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 are ...

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And learned a few things they’d not known, see? Full disclosure: We wrote that one. And it’s true that the word poetry doesn’t necessarily bring fun and laughter to mind. The exception to the rule?

(WHTM) May 12 is National Limerick Day, when we celebrate the puckish poetry that always seems to sound amusing, no matter how serious the subject matter. So where did the limerick come from, when was ...

There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, 'It is just as I feared! Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard!' — Edward Lear, from "A Book of Nonsense," 1846 ...

To limerick lovers the name Edward Lear has long (and incorrectly) meant the inventor of the limerick. To painters it has meant a third-rate landscapist of the second-rate British school. But when ...

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Make us a Preferred Source on Google to see more of us when you search. Limericks take their name from a medieval city in midwest Ireland. More precise details of their origins are, like many Irish ...

Inclines to the crude and perverse. But in an era so ratty, So messed-up and batty, Could it possibly make anything worse? In order to achieve a score that could lead to a win, a rodeo competitor must ...

In 1886, the redoubtable Victorian critic John Ruskin was invited by the Pall Mall Gazette of London to draw up a “List of the Best Hundred Authors.” His top choice wasn’t quite what the Gazette’s ...

In this offbeat volume of four Lear verses, Willey (The Golden Hoard: Myths and Legends of the World) conjures a dream-realm of dark skies and vaguely unearthly animals. Asymmetrical windows of rich ...