About the Book
This beautiful little book, Complete Poems of Lewis Carroll, includes verse from the Alice books, The Hunting of the Snark, Rhyme? and Reason?, Sylvie and Bruno, and lesser-known works. Presented in a facsimile of Lewis Carroll's handwriting, this cannot help but affect the Reader’s Imagination as they read these poems…and also affect their interpretation of the author’s Imagination as he wrote them.
Table of Contents:
“HOW DOTH THE LITTLE—”, A LONG TALE, YOU ARE OLD, FATHER WILLIAM, LULLABY, THE HATTER’S SONG, THE MOCK TURTLE’S SONG: THE LOBSTER QUADRILLE, ‘TIS THE VOICE OF THE LOBSTER, THE MOCK TURTLE’S SONG: TURTLE SOUP, EVIDENCE READ BY THE WHITE RABBIT AT THE TRIAL OF THE KNAVE OF HEARTS, THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, JABBERWOCKY, THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER, VERSES RECITED BY HUMPTY DUMPTY, THE WHITE KNIGHT’S SONG: HADDOCK’S EYES OR THE AGED, AGED MAN OR WAYS AND MEANS OR A-SITTING ON A GATE, SONG OF QUEEN ALICE, THE WHITE QUEEN’S RIDDLE, THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK, PHANTASMAGORIA, ECHOES, A SEA DIRGE, YE CARPETTE KNYGHTE, HIAWATHA’S PHOTOGRAPHING, MELANCHOLETTA, A VALENTINE, THE THREE VOICES, TÈMA CON VARIAZIÓNI, A GAME OF FIVES, POETA FIT, NON NASCITUR, SIZE AND TEARS, ATALANTA IN CAMDEN-TOWN, THE LANG COORTIN’, FAME’S PENNY-TRUMPET, THE GARDENER’S SONG, PETER AND PAUL, BRUNO’S SONG of THE THREE BADGERS, THE HERRINGS’ SONG, KING FISHER SONG, DOLL SONG, WHAT TOTTLES MEANT, THE PROFESSOR’S SONG: THE LITTLE MAN THAT HAD A LITTLE GUN, THE GARDENER’S SONG CONCLUDED, THE PIG-TALE, INTRODUCTION TO ALICE IN WONDERLAND, INTRODUCTION TO THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, AFTERPIECE TO THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, DEDICATION TO THE SNARK, DEDICATION TO A TANGLED TALE, AFTERPIECE TO ALICE’S ADVENTURES UNDERGROUND, INSCRIPTION TO SYLVIE AND BRUNO, CHARM REPEATED BY THE WARDEN (in SYLIVE AND BRUNO), TING, TING, TING (from SYLIVE AND BRUNO), SONG SUNG BY LADY MURIEL (in SYLVIE AND BRUNO), INSCRIPTION TO SYLVIE AND BRUNO CONCLUDED, A CHORUS (from SYLVIE AND BRUNO CONCLUDED), SONG SUNG BY SYLVIE AND BRUNO (in SYLVIE AND BRUNO CONCLUDED)
About the Author :
For as long as Alice in Wonderland has existed, Lewis Carroll has been world famous. He is a satirist and storyteller of the first order; a man who could reduce logic itself to mere nonsense, and the other way around. Imagining you already know quite a bit of trivia about him, here is another piece of the puzzle for you. Did you know Lewis Carroll invented a game that is still played quite often today? Today, we call it "Scrabble." One wonders if in his version, make-believe portmanteaus might be allowed...
