Has anyone read Lewis Carroll's 'The Hunting of the Snark'?

I recommend the centennial edition (1981) of Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark not only because of the poem, but also because of Henry Holiday's illustrations. What readers find in that ballad to some extend depends on their age. It is for all ages, but I think that children and adults will read it in very different ways. read more

The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits) is a poem written by English writer Lewis Carroll. It is typically categorised as a nonsense poem. Written from 1874 to 1876, the poem 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). read more

Carrollian scholar, Edward Wakeling, introduces The Hunting of the Snark. A lthough best known as the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Lewis Carroll – the pen-name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematical lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford – was also an avid reader and writer of poetry. read more