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  2. Jabberwocky - Wikipedia

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    She finds the nonsense verse as puzzling as the odd land she has passed into, later revealed as a dreamscape. [1] "Jabberwocky" is considered one of the greatest nonsense poems written in English. [2] [3] Its playful, whimsical language has given English nonsense words and neologisms such as "galumphing" and "chortle".

  3. Jabberwocky (book) - Wikipedia

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    Jabberwocky is a nonsense poem written by English poet Lewis Carroll in 1871 and first published in his 1872 novel Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. The poem, about a boy and his encounter with a creature called the Jabberwock, was originally written backwards, and Alice used a looking glass to decode it.

  4. Nonsense verse - Wikipedia

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    Other nonsense verse makes use of nonsense words—words without a clear meaning or any meaning at all. Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear both made good use of this type of nonsense in some of their verse. These poems are well formed in terms of grammar and syntax, and each nonsense word is of a clear part of speech.

  5. The Hunting of the Snark - Wikipedia

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    The Hunting of the Snark, subtitled An Agony, in Eight fits, is a poem by the English writer Lewis Carroll.It is typically categorised as a nonsense poem.Written between 1874 and 1876, it borrows the setting, some creatures, and eight portmanteau words from Carroll's earlier poem "Jabberwocky" in his children's novel Through the Looking-Glass (1871).

  6. 1871 in poetry - Wikipedia

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    Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: Robert Browning: . Blaustion's Adventure [1]; Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society [1]; Lewis Carroll (pen name of C. L. Dodgson), Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, including "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter" (published this year, although the book states "1872") [1]

  7. The Walrus and the Carpenter - Wikipedia

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    The characters of the Walrus and the Carpenter have been interpreted many ways both in literary criticism and popular culture. British essayist J. B. Priestley argued that the figures were political. [2] Walter Russell Mead supposed they represent aspects of Protestant and Transcendentalist societies during Carroll's life. [3]

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  9. Jubjub bird - Wikipedia

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    The Jubjub bird is a dangerous creature mentioned in Lewis Carroll's nonsense poems "Jabberwocky" (1871) and "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876). In "Jabberwocky," the only detail given about the bird is that the protagonist should "beware" it. In The Hunting of the Snark, however, the creature is described in much greater depth. It is found in a ...