Word: dodgson
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Peter Hirsch is a superb male lead, juggling the roles of the emcee, the game-show host, Dodgson, the Mad Hatter, Lewis Carroll, Karpov and Humpty Dumpty. His timing is impecca ble and his versatility, in all of his capabilities, is astounding...
...July 18, 1874, a shy Oxford don visited his sisters at Guildford, in the south of England. There, part of a poem came to mind. It was only eight words long, but the phrase would haunt generations: "For the Snark was a Boojum, you see." Charles Dodgson subtitled his completed work "An Agony in Eight Fits," but it is really the final volume of an unintended trilogy, a trip to Wonderland without Alice...
...scarcely missed. Here Dodgson, again under the nom de plume Lewis Carroll, is in full control of his genius. Gone is the Victorian treacle, the sentiment that seeped through his earlier writings. In its place is a premonitory feeling of dread. As always in Carrolliana, logic lies on one side and absurdity on the other. Between the two, humor leaps like a spark, illuminating the strange journey of an impossible crew (nine men whose occupations begin with B, plus a Beaver) in search of an inconceivable creature. It will ultimately consume one of them. At the end, there...
...recent years, the Snark has been as hard to find in bookstores as it was on the ocean. The hard-cover book has been out of print for a decade. Now, on the occasion of Charles Dodgson's sesquicentennial, the matter has been rectified with Martin Gardner's frabjous Annotated Snark. In its oversized, endlessly informative pages, Gardner, author...
Like J.R.R. Tolkien and C.L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), A. (for Alfred) E. (for Edward) Housman made scholarship his vocation and writing his pastime. Like those two, he is forgotten for his academic work and celebrated for his diversion. Since its publication in 1896, A Shropshire Lad has never gone out of print. Tens of thousands who never read verse can recall its athlete dying young, its rosy-lipped maids and doomed youths reveling in a haunting English countryside...