Jabberwocky Variations
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Looking Glass Poem: "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
Looking Glass Book Alice's first encounter with the poem
Explanations: Humpty Dumpty's Explanation "I can explain all the poems that ever were invented"
Dodgson's Explanation to Maud Standen, Letter, December 1877
Carroll's Pronunciation Guide "...it may be well to give instructions..."
Origin: Made More Stir Than Anything Else, by Eleanor Graham
Most Important of the Poems, by Anne Clark
The Saga of Jabberwocky, by Robert Scott
On Translating: Translations Of "Jabberwocky", by Douglas R. Hofstadter "...there is a kind of rough isomorphism, partly global, partly local..."
Russian Jabberwocky Translations, by Vladimir Shkurkin "...a conscious or intuitive perception of the image each non-word brings forth..."

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