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  2. 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.

  3. Jabberwocky - Wikipedia

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    The Jabberwock, as illustrated by John Tenniel, 1871 "Jabberwocky" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of a creature named "the Jabberwock". It was included in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).

  4. Edward Lear - Wikipedia

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    In 1846, Lear published A Book of Nonsense, a volume of limericks which went through three editions and helped popularise the form and the genre of literary nonsense. In 1871, he published Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets, which included the nonsense song "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat", which he wrote for the children of his patron ...

  5. 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]

  6. 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.

  7. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat - Wikipedia

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    Reading of "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" is a nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first published in 1870 in the American magazine Our Young Folks [1] and again the following year in Lear's own book Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets.

  8. Jabberwocky (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Jabberwocky" is an 1872 nonsense poem by Lewis ... 2004 book by Lewis Carroll and Stéphane ... Jabberwock, published in London by Chapman & Hall and ...

  9. Literary nonsense - Wikipedia

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    Today's literary nonsense comes from a combination of both sources. [5] Though not the first to write this hybrid kind of nonsense, Edward Lear developed and popularized it in his many limericks (starting with A Book of Nonsense , 1846) and other famous texts such as " The Owl and the Pussycat ", "The Dong with a Luminous Nose", " The Jumblies ...