"Christmas specials (requiring ""One Carol to the Tune of Something Else"" — in particular, singing ""Silent Night"" to the tune of ""Tequila""), and a variant was played in the 2007 special ""Humph In Wonderland"", in which panellists sang a Lewis Carroll poem to the tune of a song. Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden sang ""Jabberwocky"" to the tune of ""Jerusalem"", and Andy Hamilton and Rob Brydon sang ""You Are Old, Father William"" to the tune of ""I Know Him So Well"". Occasionally, some of the panellists imitate backing singers for the panellist actually singing when there is a suitable gap"
"two versions of the poem in Ancient Greek that exemplify the respective styles of the epic poets Homer and Nonnus. Sources: According to Chesterton and Green and others, the original purpose of ""Jabberwocky"" was to satirise both pretentious verse and ignorant literary critics. It was designed as verse showing how not to write verse, but eventually became the subject of pedestrian translation or explanation and incorporated into classroom learning. It has also been interpreted as a parody of contemporary Oxford scholarship and specifically the story of how Benjamin Jowett, the notoriously agnostic Professor of Greek at Oxford, and Master of"
"by a verse from “Jabberwocky,” a poem found in the classic novel “Through the Looking-Glass” by author Lewis Carroll. Millions of years in the distant future, a posthuman scientist is attempting to build a time machine and tests it by sending a box with a hastily gathered batch of educational toys into the past. When the box fails to return, he constructs another and tests it the same way, but it also fails to return. Believing the entire experiment to be a failure, he discontinues his efforts and gives up on time machines. The first box arrives in the middle"
"Jabberwock"" was written for Disney's ""Alice in Wonderland"" (1951). The British group Boeing Duveen and The Beautiful Soup released a single (1968) called ""Jabberwock"" based on the poem. The poem was a source of inspiration for Jan Švankmajer's 1971 short film ""Jabberwocky"", and Terry Gilliam's 1977 film of the same name. In 1972, the American composer Sam Pottle put the poem to music. The stage musical ""Jabberwocky"" (1973) by Andrew Kay, Malcolm Middleton and Peter Phillips, follows the basic plot of the poem. The Jabberwock is a central character in Tim Burton's ""Alice in Wonderland"" (2010), voiced by Christopher Lee."
"Lear; there are also parallels with the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins in the frequent use of soundplay, alliteration, created-language and portmanteau. Both writers were Carroll's contemporaries. ""Jabberwocky"" has been translated into numerous languages, as the novel has been translated into 65 languages. The translation might be difficult because the poem holds to English syntax and many of the principal words of the poem are invented. Translators have generally dealt with them by creating equivalent words of their own. Often these are similar in spelling or sound to Carroll's while respecting the morphology of the language they are being translated"
"Charles Alverson Charles Elgin Alverson (October 13, 1935 - Los Angeles, California) is a novelist, editor and screenwriter who has sometimes used the byline Chuck Alverson. He co-scripted the film ""Jabberwocky"" (1977). Alverson grew up in Los Angeles County, and graduated in 1953 from high school in Redondo Beach. After service in the 11th and 82nd Airborne divisions of the U.S. Army, he graduated from San Francisco State College (English, 1960) and Columbia University (Journalism, 1963). In the early 1960s Alverson was an assistant editor (under Harvey Kurtzman) of ""Help!"" and then a reporter for ""The Wall Street Journal"". During"
"balance, like the poem's hero. Carroll wrote many poem parodies such as ""Twinkle, twinkle little bat"", ""You Are Old, Father William"" and ""How Doth the Little Crocodile?"" Some have become generally better known than the originals on which they are based, and this is certainly the case with ""Jabberwocky"". The poems' successes do not rely on any recognition or association of the poems that they parody. Lucas suggests that the original poems provide a strong container but Carroll's works are famous precisely because of their random, surreal quality. Carroll's grave playfulness has been compared with that of the poet Edward"
"written in mirror-writing. She holds a mirror to one of the poems and reads the reflected verse of ""Jabberwocky"". She finds the nonsense verse as puzzling as the odd land she has passed into, later revealed as a dreamscape. ""Jabberwocky"" is considered one of the greatest nonsense poems written in English. Its playful, whimsical language has given English nonsense words and neologisms such as ""galumphing"" and ""chortle"". A decade before the publication of ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" and the sequel ""Through the Looking-Glass"", Carroll wrote the first stanza to what would become ""Jabberwocky"" while in Croft on Tees, close to"
"Jubjub bird The Jubjub bird is a dangerous creature mentioned in Lewis Carroll's nonsense poems ""Jabberwocky"" and ""The Hunting of the Snark"". In ""Jabberwocky"", the only detail given about the bird is that the protagonist should ""beware"" it. In ""The Hunting of the Snark"", however, the creature is described in much greater depth. It is found in a narrow, dark, depressing and isolated valley. Its voice when heard is described ""a scream, shrill and high"" like a pencil squeaking on a slate, and significantly scares those who hear it, including the Beaver, who ""turn[s] pale to the tip of its"
"stories by Lewis Carroll, such as a club the main character walks into, referred to as the Slithy Tove, which is a quote from Carroll's poem, the Jabberwocky. There have been a few comic adaptations of the novel, most notably ""Vurt - The Comic Remix"", with art by Lee O'Connor. In August 2015, Ravendesk Games conducted a Kickstarter campaign, successfully funding a tabletop role-playing game version of ""Vurt"". The campaign reached its goal in only ten days, suggesting an ongoing public awareness and cult-like fondness for the novel. Featuring all-new material by Jeff Noon himself, the RPG was officially released"
"in Roger Hall's 1970 novel ""19"", which refers to them both as one band, ""Frumious Bandersnatch and the Flamin' Groovies"" (first edition, page 110). Frumious Bandersnatch Frumious Bandersnatch was a psychedelic rock band in the late 1960s. The band was named after a character from the Lewis Carroll poem ""Jabberwocky"". Based in San Francisco, California, the band was active from 1967 to 1969. Their initial three-song EP produced a minor underground hit with the song ""Hearts to Cry"". A recording of their live work, titled ""A Young Man's Song"", was released by Big Beat (UK). The band was formed across"
"well-known in the Brothers Grimm's fairytales, some of which are called lying tales or ""lügenmärchen"". Roger Lancelyn Green suggests that ""Jabberwocky"" is a parody of the old German ballad ""The Shepherd of the Giant Mountains"" in which a shepherd kills a griffin that is attacking his sheep. The ballad had been translated into English in blank verse by Carroll's cousin Menella Bute Smedley in 1846, many years before the appearance of the Alice books. Historian Sean B. Palmer suggests that Carroll was inspired by a section from Shakespeare's ""Hamlet"", citing the lines: ""The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead/Did"
"which he has to modify so that adults can understand them, he will include this verse exactly as she told it to him. In 1942, Emma and Scott have encountered Carroll's fantasy book ""Through the Looking-Glass"", containing the poem ""Jabberwocky"". In its words, they identified the time-space equation that guided their production, organization, and operation of the abstract machine. (The unusual title of the short story is a phrase from the poem.) One day, their father hears the children's cries of excitement from upstairs in their house, and he arrives in the doorway of Scott's bedroom just in time to"
"as opposed to a series of events."" Burton focused on the poem ""Jabberwocky"" as part of his structure, and refers to the described creature by the name of the poem rather than by the name ""Jabberwock"" used in the poem. Burton also stated that he does not see his version as either a sequel to any existing ""Alice"" film nor as a ""re-imagining"". However, the idea of the climax of the story being Alice's battle with the Queen's champion, the Jabberwocky, was first added in the video game ""American McGee's Alice"", and the landscape, tower, weapons and appearance of Alice"
"from a combination of both sources. Though not the first to write this hybrid kind of nonsense, Edward Lear developed and popularized it in his many limericks (starting with ""A Book of Nonsense"", 1846) and other famous texts such as ""The Owl and the Pussycat"", ""The Dong with a Luminous Nose,"" """" and ""The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Around the World"". Lewis Carroll continued this trend, making literary nonsense a worldwide phenomenon with ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" (1865) and ""Through the Looking-Glass"" (1871). Carroll's poem ""Jabberwocky"", which appears in the latter book, is often considered quintessential"
"the nonsense tradition. In some cases, the humor of nonsense verse is based on the incompatibility of phrases which make grammatical sense but semantic nonsense at least in certain interpretations, as in the traditional: Other nonsense verse makes use of nonsense words—words without a clear meaning or any meaning at all. Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear both made good use of this type of nonsense in some of their verse. These poems are well formed in terms of grammar and syntax, and each nonsense word is of a clear part of speech. The first verse of Lewis Carroll's ""Jabberwocky"" illustrates"
"adaptations of Carroll's works; they have also been used in other authors' works and in other forms of media. Carroll's first mention of a Bandersnatch, in the poem ""Jabberwocky"" (which appears in ""Through the Looking-Glass""), is very brief: the narrator of the poem admonishes his son to ""shun / The frumious Bandersnatch"", the name describing the creature's ""fuming"" and ""furious"" character. Later in the novel, the White King says of his wife (the White Queen): ""She runs so fearfully quick. You might as well try to catch a Bandersnatch!"" In ""The Hunting of the Snark"", while the party searches for"
"Menella Bute Smedley Menella Bute Smedley (1820–1877) was a novelist and poet. A relative of Lewis Carroll, she wrote some minor novels and books of poems, including the anonymous, ""The Story of Queen Isabel, and Other Verses"", 1863. She translated the old German ballad ""The Shepherd of the Giant Mountains"" into English blank verse in 1846. Roger Lancelyn Green in the ""Times Literary Supplement"" on 1 March 1957, and later in ""The Lewis Carroll Handbook"" (1962), suggested that Carroll’s ""Jabberwocky"" may have been inspired by this work. Peter Lucas suggested in particular that verses 2-6 of Jabberwocky were a loose"
"the United States. Also called the ""Looking Glass"" series All books titles in the series are phrases taken from the poem ""Jabberwocky"", which is mentioned repeatedly in the later novels. Co-written with Larry Correia A prequel series set in the Monster Hunter International universe during the 1980s. John Ringo bibliography This is complete list by American military science fiction writer John Ringo. Series based on a zombie apocalypse, but dealing with living, near-rabid, infected humans rather than the living dead. The story centers around a family of survivalists (mother, father, and two teenage daughters) who get early warning of the"
"was very straightforward and lucid. Ray also translated some short stories (mostly adventure stories) from English and a collection of stories named ""Braziler Kalo Bagh"" was published. He also translated Ray Bradbury's 'Third Expedition' from ""Martian Chronicles"" as 'Mongol-i Shorgo'(Mars is Heaven). Satyajit Ray translated and wrote some limericks that were published in a collection–""Toray Bandha Ghorar Dim"" (A bunch of Horse-Eggs!). He was also the translator of Lewis Carrol's ""Jabberwocky"". In translation the poem is renamed 'Joborkhaki'. A collection of very short stories based on Mullah Nasiruddin (a fictional character from the Middle East known for his witty and"
"Lewis Carroll Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer of world-famous children's fiction, notably ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" and its sequel ""Through the Looking-Glass"". He was noted for his facility at word play, logic and fantasy. The poems ""Jabberwocky"" and ""The Hunting of the Snark"" are classified in the genre of literary nonsense. He was also a mathematician, photographer and Anglican deacon. Carroll came from a family of high church Anglicans, and developed a long relationship with Christ Church, Oxford, where he lived for"
"director. The press was named after a Latinisation of 'Jabberwocky', from Lewis Carroll's 'Alice' coined by Carroll's uncle, Hassard Dodgson. In 31 years the Gaberbocchus Press published over sixty titles, including works by Alfred Jarry, Kurt Schwitters, Bertrand Russell and the Themersons themselves. Alfred Jarry’s ""Ubu Roi"" was its flagship publication, published in many editions and still in print. The Gaberbocchus edition is a most apposite evocation of the spirit of Jarry's grotesque fable. The text, which was hand-written directly onto lithographic plates by the translator, Barbara Wright - interspersed with Themerson's conte crayon illustrations - is printed on loud"
"critical thinkers such as Denis Diderot were already asserting that too much literature had been published on dragons: ""There are already in books all too many fabulous stories of dragons"". In Lewis Carroll's classic children's novel ""Through the Looking-Glass"" (1872), one of the inset poems describes the Jabberwocky, a kind of dragon. Carroll's illustrator John Tenniel, a famous political cartoonist, humorously showed the Jobberwocky with the waistcoat, buck teeth, and myopic eyes of a Victorian university lecturer, such as Carroll himself. In works of comedic children's fantasy, dragons often fulfill the role of a magic fairy tale helper. In such"
"Python contributor Neil Innes appeared in ""Jabberwocky"", giving it a Python-esque feel, with many scenes (such as the ""hide and seek"" jousting tournament) reminiscent of ""Holy Grail"". For its American premiere the film was advertised as ""Monty Python's Jabberwocky"" despite protests from Gilliam. The Jabberwock is a man in costume similar to the classic Japanese ""Godzilla"" film effects. To recreate the illustrated monster of the 19th century storybook, the costume is designed to be worn by a man walking backwards. Hip and knee joints are reversed giving it a bird-like gait. The actor's head is hidden within the monster's torso"
"was a frequent visitor to the area. He wrote most of ""Jabberwocky"" at Whitburn as well as ""The Walrus and the Carpenter"". Some parts of the area are also widely believed to be the inspiration for his Alice in Wonderland stories, such as Hylton Castle and Backhouse Park. There is a statue to Carroll in Whitburn library. Lewis Carroll was also a visitor to the Rectory of Holy Trinity Church, Southwick; then a township independent of Sunderland. Carroll's connection with Sunderland, and the area's history, is documented in Bryan Talbot's 2007 graphic novel ""Alice in Sunderland"". More recently, Sunderland-born Terry"
"West Norwood Cemetery. Menella Bute Smedley Menella Bute Smedley (1820–1877) was a novelist and poet. A relative of Lewis Carroll, she wrote some minor novels and books of poems, including the anonymous, ""The Story of Queen Isabel, and Other Verses"", 1863. She translated the old German ballad ""The Shepherd of the Giant Mountains"" into English blank verse in 1846. Roger Lancelyn Green in the ""Times Literary Supplement"" on 1 March 1957, and later in ""The Lewis Carroll Handbook"" (1962), suggested that Carroll’s ""Jabberwocky"" may have been inspired by this work. Peter Lucas suggested in particular that verses 2-6 of Jabberwocky"
"while the South Docks are entered via a lock with an 18.9 m beam restriction. Lewis Carroll was a frequent visitor to the area. He wrote most of ""Jabberwocky"" at Whitburn as well as ""The Walrus and the Carpenter"". Some parts of the area are also widely believed to be the inspiration for his Alice in Wonderland stories, such as Hylton Castle and Backhouse Park. There is a statue to Carroll in Whitburn library. Lewis Carroll was also a visitor to the Rectory of Holy Trinity Church, Southwick; then a township independent of Sunderland. Carroll's connection with Sunderland, and the"
"New York Times"" wrote the film a positive review, describing it as ""...the most marvelously demented British comedy to come along since ""Monty Python and The Holy Grail"", to which ""Jabberwocky"" is a sort of stepson."" ""Variety"" gave the film a mixed review, praising the monster as ""inspired dark imagination,"" but ultimately describing the film as ""...long on jabber but short on yocks."" Jabberwocky (film) Jabberwocky is a 1977 British fantasy film co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam. It stars Michael Palin as a young cooper who is forced through clumsy, often slapstick misfortunes to hunt a terrible dragon after"
"nonsense verse poem ""Jabberwocky"" in Lewis Carroll's novel ""Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There"". The adapted screenplay is by Bruce Joel Rubin and Toby Emmerich. The film's production team also included editor Alan Heim and sound designer Dane Davis. Visual effects were created by The Orphanage, and location filming was done in Roberts Creek and Collingwood School. ""The Last Mimzy"" grossed nearly $21.5 million in North America and $6.1 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $27.5 million, Critical response to ""The Last Mimzy"" was mixed, and ranged from saying that it holds appeal for family"
"Ted Milton Ted Milton (born 1943) is an English poet and musician, best known for leading Blurt, an experimental art rock group. Milton grew up in Africa, Canada and Great Britain. He published some early poems in magazines like ""Paris Review"" and Brian Patten's ""Underdog"". In 1969 his poetry was published in the anthology """". In the mid-sixties he began performing as a puppeteer, participating in numerous international festivals and appearing on ""So It Goes"", the TV show hosted by Tony Wilson. He contributed a short scene for Terry Gilliam's film ""Jabberwocky"". In Eric Clapton's autobiography he describes hanging out"
"in Thomas Pynchon's novel ""Mason and Dixon""; typically, given the themes of mythology and historiography within the novel, Pynchon alters some details of the legend (for instance, moving to Transylvania the location of the ""wise woman"" who gives advice given to John Lambton on how to defeat the worm). A version of the tale was published by Joseph Jacobs, using William Henderson's text in ""Folk-Lore of Northern Counties"" as a source. ""Jabberwocky"" may have been partly inspired by the legend of the Lambton Worm. Willam Mayne's children's novel The Worm in the Well, published in 2002, is an adapted retelling"
"lapsing inexplicably into Unwinese. Unwinese, also known as ""Basic Engly Twenty Fido"", was an ornamented and mangled form of English in which many of the words were corrupted in a playful and humorous manner. Unwin's performances could be hilarious yet disorientating, although the meaning and context were always conveyed in a disguised and picturesque style. Unwinese may have been inspired in part by Lewis Carroll's 1871 poem ""Jabberwocky"". Unwin died at Danetre Hospital in Daventry on 12 January 2002. He is buried in the churchyard at Long Buckby, with Frances, who pre-deceased him. Their gravestone bears the epitaph, ""Reunitey in"
"example critics have seen its use of portmanteaus and neologisms as an extension of Lewis Carroll's ""Jabberwocky"". Although Joyce died shortly after the publication of ""Finnegans Wake"", during the work's composition the author made a number of statements concerning his intentions in writing in such an original manner. In a letter to Max Eastman, for example, Joyce suggested that his decision to employ such a unique and complex language was a direct result from his attempts to represent the night: In writing of the night I really could not, I felt I could not, use words in their ordinary connections."