![]() ![]() How and when Jabberwocky was writtenĭodgson made up the poem long before he published it in “Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found there”. ![]() In 1868 he wrote to his publisher: “Have you any means, or can you find any, for printing a page or two in the next volume of Alice in reverse?”, and Macmillan responded that it would cost a great deal more to do so. Carroll may have considered printing it mirrorred in full, but abandoned the idea because it would become too costly. In the book, the first stanza of the poem is actually printed in mirrored font, but the whole poem is printed in normal font on the next page. The poem makes a lot of use of ‘portmanteaus’: a word that is made up of other words. One, two! One, two! And through and through The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! ![]() One of the most famous poems from the Alice books is “Jabberwocky”: ![]()
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