English Literature / Unit 14 ENL 1338 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Lewis Carroll and Nonsense Verse
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The idea
Lewis Carroll, the pen name of the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson, wrote literary nonsense: "Jabberwocky," in Through the Looking-Glass, of eighteen seventy-one, tells of slaying the Jabberwock in invented words, and The Hunting of the Snark followed. His Alice books are in unit fifteen.
In practice
Invented words, strict logic.
Where people slip
Nonsense verse keeps strict form.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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