Jabberwocky is a nonsense poem written by which English writer?

"Jabberwocky" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of an animal called "the Jabberwock". It was included in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, a sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The book tells of Alice's adventures within the back-to-front world of a looking glass.

Lewis Carroll was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, which includes the poem "Jabberwocky", and the poem "The Hunting of the Snark", all examples of the genre of literary nonsense.

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Thor Johnson

Twas brillig on the slithy tove did gyre and gimble on the wab. All mimsy was the boregove and the momes wrath outgrabe. Beware the jabberwok my son, the jaws that bite the claws that catch. Beware the jub jub bird and shun the frumus bandisnatch.

d p catalano

Go ask Alice! Love Lewis Carroll. Great Q. 😎

Jenny Cox Pertiller

''Twas brillig . . .

rosemarymee

Why not give the author's real name?

Jim Mascair

Jabberwocky was an unusual movie with the Python gang that I could not really understand. I'm familiar with the Jabberwok and Snark.

Ron Spangenberg

Still remember from school 50 yrs ago.

Becky Collman McMahon

Thor Johnson, He took his vorpul sword in hand, longtime the manxome foe he sought. So rested he neath the tumtum tree and stood a while in thought. And as in uffish thought he stood, the jabberwock, with eyes of flame, came whiffling through that tulgey wood and burbled as it came

Gold Toy Box

11th grade English class, 1966

Isabel Laing

I knew it couldn't have been any of the others.

silrem

I wonder how many votes George Orwell would have gotten instead of George Eliot. I was surprised how many votes Rudyard Kipling got and why Carroll did not get more.