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Title: Not for the Squeamish
Review: Over the course of reading the 66-page introduction, I came to hate the editor, G. Legman. His egoism comes through even in the scholarly (though curiously uninformative) essay, which is heavily influenced by psychoanalysis, and conveys the vague idea that you should feel guilty for enjoying any of the limericks he's collected, which he considers by and large violent and misogynistic. Many of the limericks are shocking, some more so now than when they were written in the early to mid 20th century (though others, naturally, are far less shocking). They are full of profanity, lewdness, and cringe-inducing injury. But a few are quite clever and amusing. If the anthology had been whittled down by half, and the introduction omitted altogether, this would be an excellent collection of limericks.
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