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Unread 06-23-2018, 04:04 PM
Mark McDonnell Mark McDonnell is offline
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https://nonsenselit.wordpress.com/th...nderland-1903/

This is good. From 1903!

I always instinctively knew, even as a child, that they were parodies because the various creatures bully Alice like schoolteachers and demand that she recite them. But I never thought before to research what they were all parodies of. Obviously I knew 'twinkle twinkle...'

Edit: Oh, I knew the Isaac Watts! I remember reading that Blake had his moral poems for children in mind and subtly subverted them with some of the 'Songs of Innocence' like the Chimney Sweeper: 'so if all do their duty they need not fear harm'.

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