There Was an Old Man of St. Paul
The Luxury of Limericks
Edward Lear made the form popular for children, and Anon wrote the great dirty limericks, and Garrison Keillor does both while pushing the limerick envelope. E.g.Here is a yawp for old WaltWhitman, who's well worth his saltThough sometimes he'll slipAnd just let her ripAnd say: Camerados! What is this blade of grass? Who am I? Who are you? And you have to say HALT.Of course he deals in the vulgar. And the semi-salacious:Chopin wrote a lovely etudeThat, when performed in the nudeBy a mademoiselleWho plays fairly wellCan certainly uplift the mood. Many are educational, including his 26-limerick abecedary for English majors. And also:The Confed…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8021-4622-9
- EAN: 9780802146229
- Produktnummer: 24323529
- Verlag: Grove Atlantic
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 176 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Garrison Keillor lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he wrote and hosted his radio show A Prairie Home Companion for 42 years. He is the author of O, What a Luxury and the Lake Wobegon novels, and editor of the Good Poems anthology series. He is a syndicated weekly columnist for the Washington Post and travels the country doing a solo standup show.
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