Jabberwocky and Other Poems

by Carroll, Lewis

• ISBN13: 9780486415826
• ISBN10: 0486415821
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-14
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

Carefully chosen collection contains 34 of Carroll's most appealing versesnonsense verse, parodies, burlesques, moreincluding such unforgettable pieces as "The Walrus and the Carpenter," "The Mock Turtle's Song," and "Father William," as well as such lesser-known gems as "My Fancy," "A Sea Dirge," "Brother and Sister," "Hiawatha's Photographing," "The Mad Gardener's Song," "What Tottles Meant," "Poeta Fit, non Nascitur," "The Little Man That Had a Little Gun," and many others.

Author Biography

Lewis Carroll (1832–98) was the pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass, are rich repositories of his sparkling gifts for wordplay, logic, and fantasy.

Table of Contents

Early Verse
  My Fairy
  Punctuality
  Melodies
  Brother and Sister
  Facts
  Rules and Regulations
  Horrors
  Misunderstandings
  As It Fell upon a Day
  Photography Extraordinary
  "Lays of Mystery, Imagination, and Humour, No. 1: The Palace of Humbug"
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  How Doth. . .
  The Duchess's Lullaby
  The Mouse's Tale
  Father William
  The Mad Hatter's Song
  The Mock Turtle's Song
  Alice's Recitation
  Turtle Soup
  Evidence Read at the Trial of the Knave of Hearts
From Through the Looking-Glass
  Dedication
  Jabberwocky
  The Walrus and the Carpenter
  Humpty Dumpty's Recitation
  The White Knight's Ballad
Phantasmagoria
  A Sea Dirge
  Hiawatha's Photographing
  Melancholetta
  "Poeta Fit, non Nascitur"
From College Rhymes and Notes by an Oxford Chiel
  My Fancy
  A Bachanalian Ode
Other Versus
  A Poem to Rachel Daniel
From Sylvie and Bruno
  The Mad Gardener's Song
  Peter and Paul
From Sylvie and Bruno Concluded
  Matilda Jane
  What Tottles Meant
  The Little Man That Had A Little Gun
  The Pig-Tale