Lewis Carroll is actually a pseudonym, the pen name taken by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Although best known for his children's books, Dodgson worked professionally as a mathematician, studying particularly recreational logic, determinants, geometry and th...
The English cleric Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), who wrote under the name Lewis Carroll, was the author of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. He was also a noted mathematician and photographer. Born on Jan. 27, 1832, Lewis Carroll...
Charles Dodgson was the oldest of eleven children in a parish priest 's family. Every member of the Dodgson family stammered including Charles, who was also intensely shy, but these impediments did not hinder him from developing a talent for mathematics....
"The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits)" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) in 1874, when he was 42 years old. It describes "with infinite humor the impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an...
Snark hunt LESS than two months have passed since Congress and the administration concluded a long and tortuous row over the 1990 federal budget. On January 29th it all begins again over the budget for the fiscal year 1991 that starts on October...
Lewis Carroll The Annotated Hunting of the Snark, edited by Martin Gardner. W. W. Norton, 192 pages, $27.95 Nonsense may well be the most misunderstood of literary genres. Many have mistaken it for mere loony and meandering piffle--fun, but chaotic stuff. Yet, as...
In the following essay, Holquist examines The Hunting of the Snark as an experimental work that resists critics' attempts to interpret it as an allegory.
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