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Jabberwocky

Jabberwocky

AuthorLewis Carroll
GenrePoetry
First published1871
Original LanguageEnglish
First published1871
NotesA nonsense poem about the killing of a creature named "the Jabberwock". It was included in Lewis Carroll's 1871 novel <a href="/c/books/book/400878/through-the-looking-glass-and-what-alice-found-there/">Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There</a>, but has been widely reprinted as a separate work. The first stanza of the poem was first printed in 1855 under the title "Stanza of Anglo-Saxon Poetry".