DGR's close friend William Bell Scott was the subject of at
least three of DGR's limericks. Scott devoted some
amusing pages in his
Autobiographical Notes (II. 187-188)
to DGR's limericks, quoting this one and the beginning
of another, but not
the third. In his memoir
of 1921,
Memories and Notes of People and Places 1852-1912, 74
, Sir Sidney Colvin gives another version of this epigram on Scott.
This collection contains 4 texts and images, including:
1911 edition
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
DGR's close friend William Bell Scott was the subject of at least three of DGR's limericks. Scott devoted some amusing pages in his Autobiographical Notes (II. 187-188) to DGR's limericks, quoting this one and the beginning of another, but not the third. In his memoir of 1921, Memories and Notes of People and Places 1852-1912, 74 , Sir Sidney Colvin gives another version of this epigram on Scott.
A general commentary on DGR's limericks and their context is available.