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Happy birthday, Edward Lear (b. 5/12/1812)!
How pleasant to know Mr. Lear,
Who has written such volumes of stuff.
Some think him ill-tempered and queer,
But a few find him pleasant enough.
. . . .
He reads, but he does not speak, Spanish,
He cannot abide ginger beer;
Ere the days of his pilgrimage vanish,
How pleasant to know Mr. Lear! -
Happy National Limerick Day!
A limerick is a five-line humorous poem with a distinct AABBA rhyme scheme and a bouncy rhythm.
Edward Lear (born today) popularised the form in the 19th century, frequently using them in his #Book of Nonsense.
What is your favourite limerick? Feel free to share 😉
#limerick #today #LimerickDay #onthisday #poetry #poem #writing #reading #books #bookstodon @bookstodon #booksky #poetrycommunity #poet #EdwardLear #PoetrySky #poetrylovers #poemaday
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tried to write some limericks like #EdwardLear to cheer myself up.
Now I feel like crap.
#Limericks are a dangerous form.
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Photo of the Day
…a story about nonsense
Alone, each carried incalculable burdens.
Together, they charted a future course for the world.
Churchill and Roosevelt exchanged 1,949 letters and telegrams — nearly one for each day of their six-year friendship — and they met on nine occasions.
Four meetings, lasting as long as a month, were at the White House.
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A lovely half-hour chat in praise of linguistic nonsense:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001l2cw
#nonsense #language #words #EdwardLear #LewisCarroll #poetry -
«There was an old man of Port Grigor,
Whose actions were noted for vigour;
He stood on his head
till his #waistcoat turned red,
That eclectic old man of Port Grigor.»
(#EdwardLear, 1872)
«He was black in the face,
and they scarcely could trace
The least likeness to what he had been:
While so great was his fright
that his #waistcoat turned white –
A wonderful thing to be seen!»
(#LewisCarroll, from “#TheHuntingOfTheSnark”, 1876)
#limerick #limericksSee also: https://snrk.de/waistcoat-poetry/
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Born #onthisday in 1812, the English artist, musician, author, and pioneer of nonsense literature Edward Lear. Take a walk (and flight) with the birthday boy in this wonderful series of rare sketches from 1860, "Walk on a Windy Day": https://buff.ly/2q9Kztk #otd #edwardlear #art #illustration #humor #humour
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Edward Lear's first book, published when he was 19, wasn't a book of poems but a book of pictures - of parrots.
10 things you might not know about Edward Lear:
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2018/05/may-12-edward-lear.html