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Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense

Collected Poems

Author: Lewis Carroll   Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics

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The first collected and annotated edition of Carroll's brilliant, witty poems, edited by Gillian Beer

Collects together Carroll's poetry, including nonsense verse, parodies, burlesques, and more. This edition also includes notes, a chronology and an introduction that discusses Carroll's love of puzzles and wordplay.

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The first collected and annotated edition of Carroll's brilliant, witty poems, edited by Gillian Beer

Collects together Carroll's poetry, including nonsense verse, parodies, burlesques, and more. This edition also includes notes, a chronology and an introduction that discusses Carroll's love of puzzles and wordplay.

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The first collected and annotated edition of Carroll's brilliant, witty poems, edited by Gillian Beer'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe...' wrote Lewis Carroll in his wonderfully playful poem of nonsense verse, 'Jabberwocky'. This new edition collects together the marvellous range of Carroll's poetry, including nonsense verse, parodies, burlesques, and more. Alongside the title piece are such enduringly wonderful pieces as 'The Walrus and the Carpenter', 'The Mock Turtle's Song', 'Father William' and many more.

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Critic Reviews

“"Made me nearly fall off a chair laughing…Gillian Beer's lovingly, meticulously edited collection the first ever of Lewis Carroll's 'uproariously dissident' verse, leaves me seriously happy every time I open it." - Ali Smith, Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year "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 This is an elegant volume, likely to delight enthusiasts, while introducing Lewis Carroll's poetry to a younger readership. The poems are set out chronologically following a generous, thoughtful introduction from the esteemed Cambridge critic Gillian Beer... Beer has done an admirable job, and this edition will appeal to readers of all ages - Alexandra Lawrie, Times Literary Supplement”

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
This is an elegant volume, likely to delight enthusiasts, while introducing Lewis Carroll's poetry to a younger readership. The poems are set out chronologically following a generous, thoughtful introduction from the esteemed Cambridge critic Gillian Beer... Beer has done an admirable job, and this edition will appeal to readers of all ages -- Alexandra Lawrie Times Literary Supplement

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About the Author

Lewis Carroll was the pen-name of the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Born in 1832, he was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was appointed lecturer in mathematics in 1855, and where he spent the rest of his life. In 1861 he took deacon's orders, but shyness and a stammer prevented him from seeking the priesthood. His most famous works, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1872), were originally written for Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of his college. He died of bronchitis in 1898.Gillian Beer is King Edward VII Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Cambridge and past President of Clare Hall College. Among her works are Darwin's Plots (1983; third edition, 2009), George Eliot (1986), Arguing with the Past- Essays in Narrative from Woolf to Sidney (1989), Open Fields- Science in Cultural Encounter (1996) and Virginia Woolf- The Common Ground (1996).

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd | Penguin Classics
Published
5th December 2013
Pages
464
ISBN
9780141192789

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