Synopses & Reviews
Carefully chosen collection contains 34 of Carroll's most appealing verses — nonsense verse, parodies, burlesques, more — including such unforgettable pieces as "The Walrus and the Carpenter," "The Mock Turtle's Song," and "Father William," as well as such lesser-known gems as "My Fancy," "A Sea Dirge," "Brother and Sister," "Hiawatha's Photographing," "The Mad Gardener's Song," "What Tottles Meant," "Poeta Fit, non Nascitur," "The Little Man That Had a Little Gun," and many others.
Synopsis
Mathematician, author, photographer, and artist, Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832-1898) is best known as the creator of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but he was also a prolific poet. Over the course of almost 50 years, he created 150 poems, including nonsense verse, parodies, burlesques, acrostics, inscriptions, and more, many of them hilarious lampoons of some of the more sentimental and moralistic poems of the Victorian era.
This carefully chosen collection contains 38 of Carroll's most appealing verses, including such classics as "The Walrus and the Carpenter," "The Mock Turtle's Song," and "Father William," plus such lesser-known gems as "My Fancy," "A Sea Dirge," "Brother and Sister," "Hiawatha's Photographing," "The Mad Gardener's Song," "What Tottles Meant," "Poeta Fit, non Nascitur," "The Little Man That Had a Little Gun," and many others.
Filled with Carroll's special brand of imaginative whimsy and clever wordplay, this original anthology will delight fans of the author as well as other readers who relish a little laughter with their lyrics.
Synopsis
Carefully chosen collection contains 34 of Carroll's most appealing verses nonsense verse, parodies, burlesques, more including such unforgettable pieces as "The Walrus and the Carpenter," "The Mock Turtle's Song," and "Father William," as well as such lesser-known gems as "My Fancy," "A Sea Dirge," and many others.
Synopsis
Carefully chosen collection contains 34 of Carroll's most appealing verses nonsense verse, parodies, burlesques, more including such unforgettable pieces as "The Walrus and the Carpenter," "The Mock Turtle's Song," and "Father William," as well as such lesser-known gems as "My Fancy," "A Sea Dirge," and many others.
Synopsis
Includes 34 nonsense verses and parodies: "The Walrus and the Carpenter," "Father William," "My Fancy," "A Sea Dirge," "Hiawatha's Photographing," "The Mad Gardener's Song," "Poeta Fit, non Nascitur," and many others.
About the Author
Lewis Carroll (1832-98) was the pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass, are rich repositories of his sparkling gifts for wordplay, logic, and fantasy.
Table of Contents
Early Verse
My Fairy
Punctuality
Melodies
Brother and Sister
Facts
Rules and Regulations
Horrors
Misunderstandings
As It Fell upon a Day
Photography Extraordinary
"Lays of Mystery, Imagination, and Humour, No. 1: The Palace of Humbug"
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
How Doth. . .
The Duchess's Lullaby
The Mouse's Tale
Father William
The Mad Hatter's Song
The Mock Turtle's Song
Alice's Recitation
Turtle Soup
Evidence Read at the Trial of the Knave of Hearts
From Through the Looking-Glass
Dedication
Jabberwocky
The Walrus and the Carpenter
Humpty Dumpty's Recitation
The White Knight's Ballad
Phantasmagoria
A Sea Dirge
Hiawatha's Photographing
Melancholetta
"Poeta Fit, non Nascitur"
From College Rhymes and Notes by an Oxford Chiel
My Fancy
A Bachanalian Ode
Other Versus
A Poem to Rachel Daniel
From Sylvie and Bruno
The Mad Gardener's Song
Peter and Paul
From Sylvie and Bruno Concluded
Matilda Jane
What Tottles Meant
The Little Man That Had A Little Gun
The Pig-Tale