limerick

…Although he suffered from epilepsy and asthma, he continued to travel from the Mediterranean region to India, energetically producing landscape paintings and travel writings, and ended his life as a single man in Italy. He became more famous for his four books of nonsense poetry, from “Nonsense Picture Book” (published anonymously in Derry down Derry in 1846) to “Funny Lyric Poems” (1877), than for his main profession of painting. In particular, the five-line humorous poem form called limerick became widespread throughout the English-speaking world thanks to him. His other works, such as “The Owl and the Kitten”, “Yongi Bongi Bo”, “Nonsense Botanical Guide”, and nonsense fairy tales, are a major source of nourishment for British humor, along with “Mother Goose” and the works of L. Carroll. …

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…持病の癲癇（てんかん）と喘息に悩まされながら，地中海地方からインドにまで旅をつづけ，精力的に風景画や紀行文をものし，イタリアで独身の生涯を終えた。本業の絵画よりも，《ノンセンスの絵本》(1846年にデリー･ダウン･デリーDerry down Derryの匿名で発表)から《滑稽抒情詩集》(1877)に至る4冊のノンセンス詩画集によって有名となり，とくにリメリックlimerickと呼ばれる5行の戯詩形式は，彼のおかげで英語文化圏に広く浸透した。ほかに《ふくろうと子猫》《ヨンギ･ボンギ･ボー》《ノンセンス植物図鑑》，ノンセンス童話などは，〈マザーグース〉やL.キャロルの諸作とともにイギリス的ユーモアの大きな栄養源をなしている。…

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