Lewis Carroll

Rhyme? And Reason? Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ( 27 January 1832 - 14 January 1898), better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky," all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. Rhyme and Reason's humorous poetry containing a reprinting of Carroll's longest poem 'Phantasmagoria' and 'The Hunting of the Snark'. It includes the first printings of the poems, 'Echoes', 'A Game of Fives' and the last of the three of the 'Four Riddles' and 'Fame's Penny-Trumpet'.