Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense: Collected Poems

ISBN-13: 9780141192789 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 464 str.

Lewis Carroll

Opis

The collected poems of the author of Alice s Adventures in Wonderland
One of the best-known lines in literature Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe comes from Lewis Carroll s poetry, which he wrote throughout his life to amuse himself and to give pleasure to his friends and family. This marvelous collection celebrates the full range of his verse his nonsense, parodies, burlesques, and more and includes such enduringly wonderful pieces as The Walrus and the Carpenter, The Mock Turtle s Song, and Father William alongside the brilliantly playful Jabberwocky.
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Recenzje

Opening at random Gillian Beer's new edition of Lewis Carroll's poems, Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense, guarantees a pleasurable experience - not all of it nonsensical Michael Caines Times Literary Supplement

O autorze

Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-98), grew up in Cheshire in the village of Daresbury, the son of a parish priest. He was a brilliant mathematician, a skilled photographer and a meticulous letter and diary writer. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, inspired by Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church in Oxford, was published in 1865, followed by Through the Looking-Glass in 1871. He wrote numerous stories and poems for children including the nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark and fairy stories Sylvie and Bruno.