Raíces de un género

-- Año: 1846
-- Toda clase de imaginación gráfica.

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

Ok, so mostly silly, rather than funny....

Hadn't realised that this is a collection: of Lear's own limmericks & other rhymes, but it also is a collection of prose, poems etc by Lewis Carrol, Stuwwelpeter, Baron Munchausen & Gulliver's Travels. They are all illustrated by Lear though and his line drawings are comical and entertaining.

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

I really really enjoyed this book, it was fun, lighthearted and just really enjoyable. It was a very easy read, I didn't understand what half of the poems mean but that just made it more interesting for me. Some of them were a bit concerning and questionable but funny nonetheless. It's always nice to read this right after a busy tiring day.

This one gets mixed reviews from me. I'm not sure why I put it on my TBR list, but I did, and I've read it. I'm glad to now know where "The Owl and The Pussycat" came from. Some of the poetry makes me want to read it aloud to someone. But as the title suggests, it's nonsense. The nonsensical nature of it wore thin rather quickly. I know that it's supposed to be nonsense, but it got old by the fourth or fifth poem.

The nonsense botany takes the cake.

According to the introduction from an anthology of Limericks the subject matter of these poems is mostly risque. The clean limerick was developed as a parlor game. Those are the kinds of rhymes found in this collection.

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.”

I don’t think that I will be sharing this one with kids. Some of the poems were funny, but also a bit creepy.

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.

I defer to Roald Dahl speaking through Willy Wonka: A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.