Selected poems

by Lewis Carroll

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Lewis Carroll's nonsense poems have been astonishingly 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.

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Charles Luthwidge Dodgson was born in Daresbury, England on January 27, 1832. He became a minister of the Church of England and a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church College, Oxford. He was the author, under his own name, of An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, Symbolic Logic, and other scholarly treatises. He is better known by his pen show more name of Lewis Carroll. Using this name, he wrote Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. He was also a pioneering photographer, and he took many pictures of young children, especially girls, with whom he seemed to empathize. He died on January 14, 1898. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title
Selected poems
Original publication date
2002

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Genres
Fiction and Literature, Poetry
DDC/MDS
821.8Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish Poetry1837-1899
LCC
PR4611 .A4Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature19th century , 1770/1800-1890/1900

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