Lewis Carroll: Selected Poems

By Keith Silver and Lewis Carroll

Book Overview

Lewis Carroll's nonsense poems have been astonishing popular with children and adults alike since the first publication of Alice in Wonderland in 1865, and have influenced the work of a host of modern writers, including James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borgese and Vladimir Nabokov.
This generous selection of Carroll's verse serves as an ideal introduction to his work. It includes the best-known Alice poems as well as 'Sylvie and Bruno', 'The Hunting of the Snark' and pieces from Phantasmagoria the text is illustrated with a number of the evocative original Tenniel drawings.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857541472
• ISBN13: 9781857541472
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.5" x 5.3"