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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).
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.
Lear wrote the poem for a three-year-old girl, Janet Symonds, the daughter of Lear's friend and fellow poet John Addington Symonds and his wife Catherine Symonds. The term "runcible", used for the phrase "runcible spoon", was invented for the poem. It is believed that the cat in the poem was based on Lear's own pet cat, Foss. [2]
Poems and Songs by Alfred Tennyson (1853, 1859, 1860) Twelve total musical settings published, each being for a Tennyson poem. History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipplepopple (1865), illustrated manuscript now in the British Library [32] Journal of a Landscape Painter in Corsica (1870) Nonsense Songs and Stories (1870, dated 1871) [33]
Articles relating to the poem Jabberwocky (1871) by Lewis Carroll and its adaptations. Pages in category "Jabberwocky" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
The best-known Dutch Nonsense poet is Cees Buddingh'. On Indian language Bengali Sukumar Roy is the pioneer of nonsense poems and is very famous for writing children's literature. Abol Tabol is the best collection of nonsense verse in Bengali language.
Jabberwocky" is an 1872 nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll, ... Jabberwock, published in London by Chapman & Hall and edited by Brenda Girvin;
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]