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  2. Jabberwocky - Wikipedia

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    "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).

  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. 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).

  5. Nonsense verse - Wikipedia

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    These poems are well formed in terms of grammar and syntax, and each nonsense word is of a clear part of speech. The first verse of Lewis Carroll's " Jabberwocky " illustrates this nonsense technique, despite Humpty Dumpty 's later clear explanation of some of the unclear words within it:

  6. Jabberwocky (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Jabberwocky" is an 1872 nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll, about an encounter between a young boy and a monster called the Jabberwock.

  7. Lewis Carroll - Wikipedia

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    A romantic poem called "Solitude" appeared in The Train under the authorship of "Lewis Carroll". This pseudonym was a play on his real name: Lewis was the anglicised form of Ludovicus , which was the Latin for Lutwidge , and Carroll an Irish surname similar to the Latin name Carolus , from which comes the name Charles . [ 7 ]

  8. he tales were scrubbed further and the Disney princesses -- frail yet occasionally headstrong, whenever the trait could be framed as appealing — were born. In 1937, . Walt Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" was released to critical acclaim, paving the way for future on-screen adaptations of classic tales.

  9. Literary nonsense - Wikipedia

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    Literary nonsense, as recognized since the nineteenth century, comes from a combination of two broad artistic sources. The first and older source is the oral folk tradition, including games, songs, dramas, and rhymes, such as the nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle". [3]