JABBERWOCKY AND OTHER NONSENSE

Lewis Carroll was the penname of the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Born in 1832 he was educated at Rugby School and Christ Church Oxford where he was appointed lecturer in mathematics in 1855 and where he spent the rest of his life. In 1861 he took deacons orders but shyness and a stammer prevented him from seeking the priesthood. His most famous works Alices Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the LookingGlass (1872) were originally written for Alice Liddell the daughter of the Dean of his college. Charles Dodgson died of bronchitis in 1898.Gillian Beer is King Edward VII Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Cambridge and past President of Clare Hall College. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature. Among her works are Darwins Plots (1983: third edition 2009) George Eliot (1986) Arguing with the Past: Essays in Narrative from Woolf to Sidney (1989) Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter (1996) and Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground (1996).Opening at random Gillian Beers new edition of Lewis Carrolls poems Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense guarantees a pleasurable experience not all of it nonsensicalThis is an elegant volume likely to delight enthusiasts while introducing Lewis Carrolls poetry to a younger readership. The poems are set out chronologically following a generous thoughtful introduction from the esteemed Cambridge critic Gillian Beer... Beer has done an admirable job and this edition will appeal to readers of all agesTwas brillig and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe... wrote Lewis Carroll author of Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass in his wonderfully playful poem of nonsense verse Jabberwocky. This beautiful clothbound new edition collects together the marvellous range of Carrolls poetry including nonsense verse parodies burlesques and more. Alongside the title piece are such enduringly wonderful pieces as The Walrus and the Carpenter The Mock Turtles Song Father William and many more.