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On "Sonnet XVIII" by William ShakespeareAuthor(s): JOE SWARBRICKSource: The North American Review, Vol. 295, No. 2 (SPRING 2010), p. 24Published by: University of Northern IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25750623 .
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"Limeritrature" on Facebook
Since 2007, Cambridge "wits" Joe Swarbrick and James Purdon have run an online Facebook group called
Converting the whole canon of English Literature into Limericks. Versifiers from everywhere contribute
limericks on famous literary works?not only English but from across the world: the Bible, Dante,
Dostoevsky, Kafka, Harper Lee, Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison, you name it. Below are some lively, irreverent
examples. To read more, go to http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19626435792 (you don't need to be a
Facebook member); look both on the Wall and in the Discussions. Limericists, unite!
BEKA KIMBERLEY
On Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
The story that everyone knows Of two houses and all of their woes:
Teen sex from the start.
(But it's OK?it's Art!) The moral of the tale? Love blows.
JOE SWARBRICK
On Sonnet XVIII
by William Shakespeare
To the summer shall I compare thee?
Perhaps not, wait a mo, let me see ...
Oh wait, hang on, shit, It appears I just did. Um. It's purposeful. Irony.
M. DIGENOVA
On "To His Coy Mistress"
by Andrew Marvell
Past poets and I both know how
To write elegant verse to your brow, But we don't have time For that kind of rhyme? Let's go at it like buzzards right now!
ADAM SEDDON
On Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
There was a young vagrant named Huck, Who dissembled and japed with great pluck.
Though n-words cause wincing, Saved Jim from a lynching (At least he never says "fuck").
CLAIRE FITZGERALD
On "A Case of Hysteria" by Sigmund Freud
You have deep intrapsychical trauma For you saw the primordial drama Of two people in bed
Giving in to the id One of whom, I'm afraid, was YO MOMMA!
DOLLY HAYDE
On M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang
Our hero, Monsieur Gallimard, Beheld a chanteuse and fell hard But his dear china doll
Was no woman at all
And their falsetto love was canard.
24 NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW Spring 2010
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