1871 in poetry
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Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The Jabberwock, as illustrated by John Tenniel for Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, including the poem "Jabberwocky".
Arthur Rimbaud photographed by Étienne Carjat, October 1871.
1824 in poetry
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1871 in poetry
…May 11 John Herschel (born 1792), English polymath Thomas Buchanan Read (born 1822), American poet and portrait painter July 31 – Phoebe Cary (born 1824), sister of Alice, American poet September 22 – Charlotte Elliott (born 1789), English religious poet…
Lord Byron on his deathbed as depicted by Joseph Denis Odevaere c.1826