| Front | The Hunting of the Snark |
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| Back | A poem Lewis Carroll 1876 A quest led by the lugubrious Bellman for a mysterios snark(an animal in Lewis Carroll's poems) The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits) is a poem written by English writer Lewis Carroll. It is typically categorised as a nonsense poem. Written from 1874 to 1876, the poem borrows the setting, some creatures, and eight portmanteau words from Carroll's earlier poem "Jabberwocky" in his children's novel Through the Looking-Glass (1871). |
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