The Hunting Of The Snark : An Agony In Eight Fits - 9781984126382

The Hunting of the Snark, in full The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits, nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll, first published in 1876. The fanciful eight-canto poem describes the sea voyage of a bellman, boots (bootblack), bonnet maker, barrister, broker, billiard marker, banker, beaver, baker, and butcher and their search for the elusive undefined snark. A dedicatory poem that Carroll attached to the work contained an acrostic on the name of his then-favourite child friend, Gertrude Chataway, whose name is also found in the first words of each stanza of the poem: Girt, Rude, Chat, Away. While scholars have attributed to the work hidden meanings from political subversion to existential agony, Carroll maintained that it was intended simply as nonsense.

Author: Lewis Carroll, Henry Holiday

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Jan 23, 2018

Number of Pages: 52 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1984126385

ISBN-13: 9781984126382