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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).
Alun Lewis (1 July 1915 – 5 March 1944) was a Welsh poet. He is one of the best-known English-language war poets of the Second World War . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] His poetry centres around a "recurring obsession with the themes of isolation and death."
Jonathan Lewis was born April 23, 1783, in Randolph County, North Carolina, the second child of Richard Lewis and Lydia Field. On March 30, 1811, Jonathan Lewis married Sarah McCain in Clark County, Indiana. They had two children: Priscilla, born March 4, 1812, and Thomas Willis, born September 1816.
Although the poem had been rejected from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats for being "too sad for children", [7] it became the basis for Grizabella's character-defining song in the musical ("Grizabella: The Glamour Cat"). The poem centres on a former glamour cat who has fallen on hard times and now roams the red-light district near Tottenham ...
The late, great Congressman John Lewis told his story in a wonderfully accessible format: graphic novels. Those acclaimed, best-selling works like Run and March are works of art. But Lewis also ...
Black Cat Bone is a poetry collection by John Burnside, published in 2011 by Jonathan Cape. [1] [2] It was the Scottish poet's 11th collection. [3] According to Fiona Sampson writing in The Independent: "Black Cat Bone distils its dreamscapes into four sections.
Gray also wrote light verse, including Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes, a mock-heroic elegy concerning Horace Walpole's cat. Even this humorous poem contains some of Gray's most famous lines. Walpole owned two cats: Zara and Selima. Scholars allude to the name Selima mentioned in the poem. [27]
J. Patrick Lewis (born May 5, 1942) is an American poet and prose writer noted for his children's poems and other light verse. [1] He worked as professor of economics from 1974-1998, after which he devoted himself full-time to writing.