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  2. 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).

  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 Walrus and the Carpenter - Wikipedia

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    The 1967 The Beatles song "I Am the Walrus", which is based on the poem, is also a common subject of nonsense inquiry. [4] John Lennon later inferred Carroll's views on capitalism from the poem, joking that perhaps he should have instead sung "I Am the Carpenter".

  5. Category:Jabberwocky - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Jabberwocky (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Jabberwocky" is an 1872 nonsense poem by ... "Jabberwocky" (Better Off Ted), an episode of the TV ... Jabberwock, published in London by Chapman ...

  7. 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]

  8. 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).

  9. Talk:Jabberwocky - Wikipedia

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    The Jabberwock, the titular creature of Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem "Jabberwocky". First included in Carroll's novel Through the Looking-Glass (1871), the poem was illustrated by John Tenniel, who gave the creature "the leathery wings of a pterodactyl and the long scaly neck and tail of a sauropod".