A Nonsense Anthology

By Wells, Carolyn

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Title:	A Nonsense Anthology
Author:	Wells, Carolyn
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
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Excerpt
Introduction: On a topographical map of Literature Nonsense would be represented by a small and sparsely settled country, neglected by the average tourist, but affording keen delight to the few enlightened travellers who sojourn within its borders. It is a field which has been neglected by anthologists and essayists; one of its few serious recognitions being in a certain ?Treatise of Figurative Language,? which says: ?Nonsense; shall we dignify that with a place on our list? Assuredly will vote for doing so every one who hath at all duly noticed what admirable and wise uses it can be, and often is, put to, though never before in rhetoric has it been so highly honored. How deeply does clever or quaint nonsense abide in the memory, and for how many a decade?from A Nonsense Antholoearliest youth to age?s most venerable years.? And yet Hazlitt?s ?Studies in Jocular Literature? mentions six divisions of the Jest, and omits Nonsense! Perhaps, partly because of such neglect, the work of the best nonsense writers is less widely known than it might be.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: A Nonsense Anthology, 1 -- Collected by Carolyn Wells, 1 -- Introduction, 5 -- JABBERWOCKY, 12 -- MORS IABROCHII, 13 -- THE NYUM?NYUM, 14 -- UFFIA, 16 -- SPIRK TROLL?DERISIVE, 17 -- THE WHANGO TREE, 17 -- SING FOR THE GARISH EYE, 18 -- THE CRUISE OF THE ?P.C.?, 18 -- TO MARIE, 19 -- LUNAR STANZAS, 19 -- NONSENSE, 20 -- SONNET FOUND IN A DESERTED MAD HOUSE, 21 -- THE OCEAN WANDERER, 21 -- SHE'S ALL MY FANCY PAINTED HIM, 22 -- MY RECOLLECTEST THOUGHTS, 23 -- FATHER WILLIAM, 24 -- IN THE GLOAMING, 24 -- BALLAD OF BEDLAM, 25 -- 'TIS SWEET TO ROAM, 25 -- HYMN TO THE SUNRISE, 26 -- THE MOON IS UP, 26 -- 'TIS MIDNIGHT, 26 -- UPRISING SEE THE FITFUL LARK, 27 -- LIKE TO THE THUNDERING TONE, 27 -- MY DREAM, 27 -- MY HOME, 28 -- IN IMMEMORIAM, 28 -- THE HIGHER PANTHEISM IN A NUTSHELL, 28 -- DARWINITY, 29 -- SONG OF THE SCREW, 30 -- MOORLANDS OF THE NOT, 32 -- METAPHYSICS, 32 -- ABSTROSOPHY, 33 -- ABSTEMIA, 33 -- PSYCHOLOPHON, 33 -- TIMON OF ARCHIMEDES, 34 -- ALONE, 34 -- LINES BY A MEDIUM, 35 -- TRANSCENDENTALISM, 35 -- INDIFFERENCE, 36 -- HEART?FOAM, 36 -- COSSIMBAZAR, 36 -- THE PERSONIFIED SENTIMENTAL, 37 -- A CLASSIC ODE, 37 -- WHERE AVALANCHES WAIL, 37 -- A Nonsense Anthology -- i