Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense by Carroll, Lewis -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Contents About the Author Introduction

Early Poetry Professional Life and Poetry Carroll’s Reading and His Parodies NOTES

Further Reading

Poetry collections by Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson) and his prose works containing poems Journals to which Lewis Carroll (C. L. Dodgson) contributed poems Manuscript collections Reference works

Note on the Texts Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense

Poems from Family Magazines

Useful and Instructive Poetry (1845)

My Fairy The Headstrong Man Punctuality Charity Melodies A Tale of a Tail A quotation from Shakespeare with slight improvements Brother and Sister The Trial of a Traitor The Juvenile Jenkins Facts The Angler’s Adventure A Fable Rules and Regulations Clara A Visitor

The Rectory Magazine (c. 1848)

Tears As It Fell Upon a Day Terrors Woes Yang-ki-ling Misunderstandings Screams Thrillings

The Rectory Umbrella (c. 1850–53)

Ye Fatalle Cheyse The Storm Lays of Sorrow – Number 1 Lays of Sorrow – Number 2 The Poet’s Farewell

Mischmasch (c. 1855–62)

The Two Brothers The Dear Gazelle She’s All My Fancy Painted Him a Poem From “Photography Extraordinary”

“the milk-and-water School of novels” “the matter-of-fact School”

From “Wilhelm Von Schmitz”, chapters 3 and 4

[“What though the world be cross and crooky”] [“His barque hath perished in the storm”] [“My Sukie! he hath bought, yea, Muggle’s self”]

The Lady of the Ladle Lays of Mystery, Imagination, and Humour

Number 1 The Palace of Humbug

Stanza of Anglo-Saxon Poetry Tommy’s Dead Ode to Damon (From Chloe, who Understands His Meaning.) [Riddle]

Other Early Verse

Prologue to “La Guida di Bragia” The Ligniad, in two Books

Book I Book II

[From a letter to his younger sister and brother Henrietta and Edwin, 31 January 1855] Upon the Lonely Moor From “Novelty and Romancement: A broken spell”

[“ ‘When Desolation snatched her tearful prey”]

Alice, daughter of C. Murdoch, Esq From “The Legend of Scotland”

[“Lorenzo dwelt at Heighington”] [“Here I bee, and here I byde”] [“ ‘Yn the Auckland Castell cellar”] [“Into the wood – the dark, dark wood”]

Disillusionised Those Horrid Hurdy-Gurdies! A Monody, By a Victim [Prologue] The Majesty of Justice An Oxford Idyll Miss Jones

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

[“All in the golden afternoon”] [“How doth the little crocodile”] [Mouse Tails]

[“We lived beneath the mat”] [“Fury said to”]

[“ ‘You are old, Father William,’the young man said”] [The Duchess’s Lullaby] [“Twinkle, twinkle, little bat”] [The Mock Turtle’s Song: I] [The Mock Turtle’s Song in “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground”] [“ ’Tis the voice of the Lobster: I heard him declare”] [1886 completion of “ ’Tis the voice of the Lobster”] [The Mock Turtle’s Song: II] [The White Rabbit’s Evidence]

Phantasmagoria and Other Poems (1869)

[Part 1]: Phantasmagoria

Canto I – The Trystyng Canto II – Hys Fyve Rules Canto III – Scarmoges Canto IV – Hys Nouryture Canto V – Byckerment Canto VI – Dyscomfyture Canto VII – Sad Souvenaunce

Phantasmagoria: Part 2

The Valley of the Shadow of Death Beatrice [Acrostic Lines to Lorina, Alice and Edith] The Path of Roses The Sailor’s Wife Stolen Waters Stanzas for Music Solitude Only a Woman’s Hair Three Sunsets Christmas Greetings After Three Days Faces in the Fire

Puzzles from Wonderland (1870)

I II III IV V VI VII

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1872)

[Prologue to “Through the Looking-Glass”] Jabberwocky [“Tweedledum and Tweedledee”] The Walrus and the Carpenter [Humpty Dumpty’s Song “written entirely for Alice’s amusement”] [The White Knight’s Song] [The Red Queen’s Lullaby] [“To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said”] [The White Queen’s Riddle] Wasp in a Wig [“A boat beneath a sunny sky”]

Oxford Poems, with some Memoria Technica

Examination Statute The Deserted Parks The New Belfry of Christ Church, Oxford From The Vision of the Three T’s: A Threnody by the Author of “The New Belfry” (1873)

The Wandering Burgess

A Bachanalian Ode [The Wine Committee] [“I love my love with a T”] [“He took a second-story flat”] The First Crusade. Wycliffe’s Bible completed. French Revolution.

The Hunting of the Snark (1876)

[Acrostic dedication to Gertrude Chataway]

Fit the First Fit the Second Fit the Third Fit the Fourth Fit the Fifth Fit the Sixth Fit the Seventh Fit the Eighth

Poems for Friends, including acrostics, riddles, “charades” and a cipher-poem

[Two Prologues]

[Prologue to “The Loan of a Lover”] [Prologue to “Checkmate”]

[Some poems to Colleagues and Friends]

[A Request]

[Winter Birthday] Dreamland To “Hallie” [“My dear Christie”] [Letter to Maggie Cunnynghame] To Three Puzzled Little Girls, From the Author

[To the three Misses Drury 1] [To the three Misses Drury 2] [To the three Misses Drury 3]

[“ ‘No mind!’ the little maiden cried”] To Miss Mary Watson [Two Poems to Rachel Daniel]

I: [“Oh pudgy podgy pup”] II: [“What hand may wreathe thy natal crown”]

The Lyceum [“Something fails”] [Letter to Violet Dodgson] [Acrostics, riddles and a cipher-poem]

[Cipher-poem and translation] [translation]

A Riddle [Puzzle] (To Mary, Ina, and Harriet or ‘Hartie’ Watson.) [Acrostic for Ruth Dymes] To Miss Margaret Dymes [“No, no! I cannot write a line”] [“ ‘Are you deaf, Father William?’ the young man said”] To the Misses Drury [“Alice dear, will you join me in hunting the Snark”] [“Alice dreamed one night that she”] [“From the air do they come”] [“Love-lighted eyes, that will not start”] Madrigal [Anagrammatic Sonnet] [“They both make a roaring – a roaring all night”] Love Among the Roses [“Around my lonely hearth to-night”] [Poem for Dolly Draper] To M. A. B. (To Miss Marion Terry, “Mary Ann Bessie Terry.”) To Miss Gaynor Simpson For Alexandra Kitchin A Charade Dedicated to a tea-tea. Why? Oh, when? To my Pupil To My Child-Friend Dedication to “The Game Of Logic” To Miss Emmie Drury A Nursery Darling Dedication to the Nursery “Alice,” 1889 [“Girlie to whom in perennial bloom”] [Double Acrostics]

(To Miss E. M. Argles.) [Double Acrostic for Agnes and Emily]

[“Two little girls near London dwell”] [“Thanks, thanks, fair Cousins, for your gift”] [“I saw a child; even if blind”] A Day in the Country Maggie’s Visit to Oxford (June 9th to 13th, 1889) A Lesson in Latin [“My First has no beard – but its whiskers abound”] To Miss Véra Beringer Riddle Poem [Some Poems to accompany Photographs]

The Castle Builder

[“No sooner does the sun appear”] Going a-shrimping [“Breathes there the man with soul so dead”] Ode addressed to a Young Lady who expressed a Wish for a recent photograph of the Poet Who Killed Cock Robin?

“Sylvie and Bruno ” (1889) and “Sylvie and Bruno Concluded” (1893)

Sylvie and Bruno

[“Who sins in hope, who, sinning, says”] [“Is all our Life, then, but a dream”] [A Beggar’s Palace] [The Gardener’s Song] The Old Man’s Incantation Peter and Paul [“He either fears his fate too much”] Fairies’ Song The Three Badgers Light Come, Light Go

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

[“Dreams, that elude the Maker’s frenzied grasp”] [“King Fisher courted Lady Bird”] [Streaks of Dawn] Matilda Jane The Revellers’ Song What Tottles Meant [The Earl’s Poem] [“In stature the Manlet was dwarfish”] A Fairy-Duet The Pig-Tale

Late Collections

Rhyme? And Reason? (1883)

Echoes A Game of Fives Four Riddles Fame’s Penny-Trumpet

A Tangled Tale (1885)

A Tangled Tale

Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898)

Puck Lost and Found

Appendix Poems Doubtfully Attributed to Lewis Carroll

Sequel to The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain [Solutions to Puzzles from Wonderland, probably from another hand]

Notes Chronology Copyright Page Footnotes

Poems from Family Magazines

The Rectory Umbrella (c. 1850–53)

Page 33 Page 34 Page 37 Page 41

Phantasmagoria and Other Poems (1869)

Page 138 Page 139 Page 166 Page 167 Page 168 Page 169

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