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I wondered only at poetry's dying light.(Features)

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From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Date: 20071214
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Byline: VALERIE HILL

POSSIBLY having been exposed to the work of Lewis Carroll at too young an age, it took me an even longer time than most people to understand what it was all about.

I simply did not get the joke - in fact, I didn't realise that it was a joke, never mind that it was a prime example of a British master of satire.

But it could always have been worse.

It's clearly lucky that I've passed my time to be taught poetry at school, as a whole mode of teaching is named after Lewis Carroll verses.

What's known as the "Jabberwocky approach" to ...

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