Lovely poems and charming illustrations.

Such a fun read! This little gem is packed with great nonsens poems for you to enjoy and share!

There is a literary term called limerick. It is a 5 line poem. This book has 100 such limericks. Check http://www.literarydevices.com/limerick/ to see some examples. A few were amusing, but I found most to be nonsense - as accurately mentioned in the title of the book!

There was a young child of Diegoune
Who ate some cheese of moon
His decision was scroobius
But he was now too dubious
Oh that gluttonous child of Diegoune

I read this book of limerick poetry on Sunday, April 16, 2023
I’m not really sure how to write a review upon this book. It’s not my job or anyone’s job for that matter to judge or critique someone’s creativity and poetry at least in my opinion is the form of being creative.
I was more focussed review on how much I enjoyed the book and what I felt rather than on judging or critiquing his poetry
This was interesting. It’s nice to read nonsense sometimes rather than always focussing on more serious logical endeavors. I will say I wish it was more of a story. Rather than each story only being five lines I wish it could be verses for a song for example and there being many limerick that equal story. I’m not really too sure if that’s how proper limericks are but I think that would be an interesting twist to extend the meaning of the story even if it’s just foolishness
I will also say some of that or Charlie nonsensical. It’s not just the story being erratic and utopian even rather me not being able to understand them. It’s not hard English compared to Shakespeare in that sense but rather just random words strung together.
In regards to me recommending this I don’t know. If you’re interested to read someone’s poetry then read this but if you were looking for just any poetry book this might not be for you because of its nonsensical Ness. I suggest you read it it’s really short and that way you can create your own opinions upon his work and again everyone’s going to interpret poems in a different way and I feel terrible trying to judge it considering this is his creative outlet and wait for him to express how he’s feeling
So please keep in mind that I am visually impaired and solve any issues occurred I apologize sincerely

This book was such a fun, goofy read! Highly recommend you read it if you feel stressed in life right now.

A quick free read for Kindle from Amazon. A break from the chunksters I've been reading (The Bee Sting and The Whalebone Theatre) Lear's the king of Limericks!

“There was an Old Person whose habits,
Induced him to feed upon Rabbits;
When he'd eaten eighteen,
He turned perfectly green,
Upon which he relinquished those habits.”

Very tedious and boring. I can give two stars for surrealism and for its brand of limericks, but this work is largely devoid of humour and creativity, and isn't fit for my taste.

Took away 2 stars because contrary to the title of the book, some verses actually made sense!

Fun collection of limericks originally published in 1846. I think the combination of nonsense verse with Lear's appropriately silly illustrations is what really makes this book fun.

I was able to read this online at http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/BoN/i...

Having taught a course on Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (in the spring I will be teaching Through the Looking Glass), my research often brought up Lear's name -- whether to compare to Carroll or contrast. So I thought I should pick up Lear's Book of Nonsense and see for myself.

In the collection were whimsical verses and a couple of short stories as well as a few "recipes" (the result of which no one would want to eat) and many many limericks (which, though he did not invent the genre -- it more likely having emerged the prior century -- he defintely popularized it). He also has a menagerie of fantastical animals to "teach" the alphabet.

Surely "The Owl and the Pussycat" is one of the magical poems from my childhood....probably, Lear's best and why it was the only piece of his that I had been familiar with.

His verse, like Carroll's work, has word play, invented words, and a tendency towards violence. I enjoyed reading his work, but I will not be left with any lasting memories of characters or places or images. Still, I can see a parent reading these poems to their kid and both enjoying the fun of the sounds of words and rhymes.

"Far and few, far and few/ Are the lands where the Jumblies live/ Their hands are green and their heads are blue/

And they went to sea in a sieve."

Probably wrong a bit here and there, but it's what I remember. I believe an intelligent, educated, wry mind works this way on opium.

"And when the sieve went round and round/ And everyone shouted, 'You'll all be drowned!' ... "

Well, it's for you to pick this gem of a book up and read it. A pleasurable diversion from serious stuff - unless you're a nihilist and consequently will find great meaning here.