Lewis Carroll: You Are Old, Father William

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Thanks so much that you've put this on youtube! I need it tomorrow from my head to make the classroom! really thanks!!
I know it almost!
thaaannkss!!

I'm going to put a lego version of jabberwocky on youtube 3 days from now.

Glad to have been of some help, my friend!

Thank you very much! :D

I know... forgive me! ;-)

What's Jabberwocky a parody of?

The first vers of Jabberwocky appear in Carroll's early notebooks as "A Specimen of Anglo Saxon Poetry".
Anglo-Saxon poetry was undergoing a revival at Oxford during Carroll's time there; Carroll - an arch conservative - was deeply distrustful that ancient britons could produce anything worth reading.
It's a terrible parody - Carroll didn't know what he was talking about - but it led to a good poem.

LOL. I was gonna say, I LOVE Old English poetry. It's wonderful, and I wish more of it was still about for us to read. You at all familiar with any Old English works? I quite like Deor and The Battle of Brunanburh.

Why not post a reading of a good translation of (say) "The Battle of Maldon"? I suspect you'd perform it very well.
I'm Welsh, so I prefer the Gododdin to Beowulf. But Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the greatest narrative poems ever written.

Thanks man, I appreciate the positive feedback. :D