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The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits) is typically categorized as a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll, the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. 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).

The Hunting of the Snark is a poem typically categorized 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). Henry Holiday, the illustrator of the poem, thought of it as a "tragedy". The plot follows a crew of ten trying to hunt the Snark, an animal which may turn out to be a highly dangerous Boojum. The only one of the crew to find the Snark quickly vanishes, leading the narrator to explain that it was a Boojum after all.

Excerpt from The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony, in Eight FitsUnscribed to a dear Child:in memory of golden summer hoursand whispers of a summer sea.Girt with a boyish garb for boyish task,Eager she wields her spade : yet loves as wellRest on a friendly knee, intent to askThe tale he loves to tell.Rude spirits of the seething outer strife,Unmeet to read her pure and simple spright,Deem, if you list, such hours a waste of life,Empty of all delight!Chat on, sweet Maid, and rescue from annoyHearts that by wiser talk are unbeguiled.Ah, happy be who owns that tenderest joy,The heart-love of a child!Away, fond thoughts, and vex my soul no more!Work claims my wakeful nights, my busy days -Albeit bright memories of that sunlit shoreYet haunt my dreaming gaze!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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If—and the thing is wildly possible—the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief but instructive poem, it would be based, I feel convinced, on the line. "Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes." In view of this painful possibility, I will not (as I might) appeal indignantly to my other writings as a proof that I am incapable of such a deed: I will not (as I might) point to the strong moral purpose of this poem itself, to the arithmetical principles so cautiously inculcated in it, or to its noble teachings in Natural History—I will take the more prosaic course of simply explaining how it happened.

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. 1906 reprint. 83pp. All 9 delightful black line illustrations by Henry Holiday present. Endpapers lightly foxed, with neat gift inscription to ffep. Lightly shaken. Red cloth covered boards illustrated with wonderful gold gilt design to upper and lower; lightly rubbed to edges and corners. ¾ of spine missing, exposing the material beneath. Gold gilt to all fore-edges.

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