Limericks: Historical and Hysterical

Author/Contributor(s):	Billington, Ray Allen
Publisher:	W. W. Norton & Company
Date:	04/01/1981
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.