The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll - subtitled An Agony in 8 Fits, is a poem by the English writer Lewis Carroll. It is typically categorised as a nonsense poem. Written between 1874 and 1876, it borrows the setting, some creatures, and eight portmanteau words from Carroll's earlier poem "Jabberwocky" in his children's novel Through the Looking-Glass (1871).The Hunting of the Snark shares its fictional setting with Lewis Carroll's earlier poem 'Jabberwocky' published in his 1871 children's novel Through the Looking-Glass. Eight nonsense words from 'Jabberwocky' appear in The Hunting of the Snark: bandersnatch, beamish, frumious, galumphing, jubjub, mimsiest (which previously appeared as mimsy in 'Jabberwocky), outgrabe, and uffish. In a letter to the mother of his young friend Gertrude Chataway, Carroll described the domain of the Snark as "an island frequented by the jubjub and the bandersnatch - no doubt the very island where the jabberwock was slain."