Poetry Codex

Victorian

Lewis Carroll

1832–1898

Lewis Carroll, the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), was an Oxford mathematician best known for the Alice books, whose fondness for nonsense and wordplay also produced a distinctive body of comic and whimsical verse.

The Hunting of the Snark and the parodies collected in Phantasmagoria remain classics of English nonsense poetry.

Poems (50)

  1. The Hunting of the Snark
  2. Inscribed to a Dear Child
  3. The Landing
  4. The Bellman’s Speech
  5. The Baker’s Tale
  6. The Hunting
  7. The Beaver’s Lesson
  8. The Barrister’s Dream
  9. The Banker’s Fate
  10. The Vanishing
  11. Three Sunsets
  12. The Path of Roses
  13. The Valley of the Shadow of Death
  14. Solitude
  15. Far Away
  16. Beatrice
  17. Stolen Waters
  18. The Willow-tree
  19. Only a Woman's Hair
  20. The Sailor's Wife
  21. After Three Days
  22. Faces in the Fire
  23. A Lesson in Latin
  24. Puck Lost and Found
  25. A Song of Love
  26. Phantasmagoria
  27. Echoes
  28. A Sea Dirge
  29. Ye Carpette Knyghte
  30. Hiawatha’s Photographing
  31. Melancholetta
  32. A Valentine
  33. The First Voice
  34. The Second Voice
  35. The Third Voice
  36. A Game of Fives
  37. Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur
  38. Size and Tears
  39. Atalanta in Camden-town
  40. The Lang Coortin’
  41. I
  42. II
  43. III
  44. IV
  45. Fame’s Penny-trumpet
  46. Jabberwocky
  47. A Boat, beneath a Sunny Sky
  48. The Walrus and the Carpenter
  49. The Lobster Quadrille
  50. You Are Old, Father William

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