Images of irreverence: nonsense poetry in translation as exemplified by edward lear’s poem “the akond of swat”

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    The world of literary nonsense is inhabited by creatures alien to scientific taxonomies and inaccessible to human experience: green-headed Jumblies, predatory Jubjubs, Pobbles who have no toes, and other sinister hybrids of snail, snake and shark. A particularly interesting specimen in this lively menagerie is "Akond of Swat", the eponymous character of Edward Lear`s poem, known to Polish readers as "Akond of Skwak" or "Jakąd of ­Wszczot", and to children looking at picture books as an anthropoid caterpillar or a big-eyed comb. As Lear scholars and experts in Middle Eastern . . .

     

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