Literary nonsense 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 Scroobious Pip The Scroobious Pip "The Scroobious Pip" is a nonsense verse poem left unfinished by Edward Lear at the time of his death in 1888. The poem tells of a fanciful animal of unknown taxonomy known only as "the Scroobious Pip" and the fruitless attempts of the other animals of the world to classify it. "The Scroobious Pip" was left unfinished by Lear in 1872. It was not published until 1935 in a collectors edition, of which 950 copies were produced. In 1968, it was completed by American poet Ogden Nash, who was asked to finish the poem. Illustrations by Nancy