"The Hunting of the Snark The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits) is a poem written by English writer Lewis Carroll. It is typically categorised 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). As for the word ""Snark"", Carroll did not give it any meaning. The word ""snarking"" had been used in 1866 to describe a sound. Henry Holiday, the illustrator of the poem, thought of it as a ""tragedy"". The plot"
"""The Hunting of the Snark"" with the illness of Carroll's cousin and godson, the twenty-two-year-old Charlie Wilcox. On 17 July 1874, Carroll travelled to Guildford, Surrey, to care for him for six weeks, while the young man struggled with tuberculosis. The next day, while taking a walk in the morning after only a few hours of sleep, Carroll thought of the poem's final line: ""For the Snark ""was"" a Boojum, you see."" Fuller Torrey and Judy Miller suggest that the event that inspired the poem was the sudden death of Carroll's beloved uncle, Robert Wilfred Skeffington Lutwidge, caused by a"
"Hunting the Snark Hunting the Snark is a compendium of poetic terminology that mirrored American contemporary poetry of nineteen seventies and eighties written by Robert Peters. The book sorts through contemporary American poems, separating them into nearly a hundred categories. The book’s foreword is written by founder of the ""New York Quarterly"", William M. Packard. He says, “""Hunting the Snark"" is an extraordinarily well-informed, joyous encomium to poetry itself. It displays the variety and diversity of our contemporary American scene.” His classifications are concepts like: ""Sylvia Plath Poems"", ""Wise Child poems"", ""Snapshot Poems"", ""Academic Sleaze"", ""Fruits-and-Flower-Poems"", ""Ezra Pound poems"", ""Jazz"
"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. The poem is dedicated to young Gertrude Chataway, whom Carroll met at the English seaside town Sandown in the Isle of Wight in 1875. Included with many copies of the first edition of the poem was Carroll's religious tract, ""An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves ""Alice"""". ""The Hunting of the Snark"" was"
"published by Macmillan in the United Kingdom in late March 1876, with illustrations by Henry Holiday. It had mixed reviews from reviewers who found it strange. The first printing of ""The Hunting of the Snark"" consisted of 10,000 copies. There were two reprintings by the conclusion of the year; in total, the poem was reprinted 17 times between 1876 and 1908. Carroll often denied knowing the meaning behind the poem; however, in an 1896 reply to one letter, he agreed with one interpretation of the poem as an allegory for the search for happiness. Scholars have found various meanings in"
"letters asking for the meaning of the poem, Carroll often replied that he did not know. However, in an 1896 reply to one letter, he agreed with one interpretation of the poem as an allegory for the search for happiness. Widely varying interpretations of ""The Hunting of the Snark"" have been suggested: an allegory for tuberculosis, a mockery of the Tichborne case, a satire of the controversies between religion and science, the repression of Carroll's sexuality, and a piece against vivisection, among others. According to Cohen, the poem represents a ""voyage of life"", with the Baker's disappearance caused by his"
"to correspond with her, and to spend numerous seaside holidays with her, including several when she was in her late twenties. Gertrude Chataway Gertrude Chataway (1866–1951) was the most important child-friend in the life of the author Lewis Carroll, after Alice Liddell. It was Gertrude who inspired his great nonsense mock-epic ""The Hunting of the Snark"" (1876), and the book is dedicated to her, and opens with a poem that uses her name as a double acrostic. Carroll first became friends with Gertrude in 1875, when she was aged nine and he was forty-three, while on holiday at the English"
"Gertrude Chataway Gertrude Chataway (1866–1951) was the most important child-friend in the life of the author Lewis Carroll, after Alice Liddell. It was Gertrude who inspired his great nonsense mock-epic ""The Hunting of the Snark"" (1876), and the book is dedicated to her, and opens with a poem that uses her name as a double acrostic. Carroll first became friends with Gertrude in 1875, when she was aged nine and he was forty-three, while on holiday at the English seaside resort of Sandown. He made a number of pen and ink sketches of Gertrude as a young girl. He continued"
"gives ""1872"" as the date of publication.) Its somewhat darker mood possibly reflects changes in Dodgson's life. His father's death in 1868 plunged him into a depression that lasted some years. In 1876, Dodgson produced his next great work, ""The Hunting of the Snark"", a fantastical ""nonsense"" poem exploring the adventures of a bizarre crew of nine tradesmen and one beaver, who set off to find the snark. It received largely mixed reviews from Carroll's contemporary reviewers, but was enormously popular with the public, having been reprinted seventeen times between 1876 and 1908, and has seen various adaptations into musicals,"
"plays, and music, including one for trombone by Norwegian composer Arne Nordheim (1975) a jazz rendition (2009), and (in French translation—""La chasse au Snark"") with music by Michel Puig for five actresses, eight actors and an instrumental ensemble of five players, premiered at the Festival d'Avignon in 1971. The poem has inspired literature, such as Jack London's ""The Cruise of the Snark"" (1911), the science-fiction short story ""Chaos, Coordinated"" (1947) by John MacDougal, Elsabeth Huxley's ""With Forks and Hope"" (1964) and the title of Kate Wilhelm's novela ""With Thimbles, with Forks and Hope."" American author Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was fond"
"Scholar Selwyn Goodacre speculates that, as many copies of first-edition of the poem contain the tract, there is a possibility that all first editions originally had a copy of ""An Easter Greeting"". The first printing of ""The Hunting of the Snark"" consisted of 10,000 copies. By the conclusion of 1876, it had seen two reprints, with a total of 18,000 or 19,000 copies circulating. In total, the poem was reprinted seventeen times between 1876 and 1908. ""The Hunting of the Snark"" received largely mixed reviews from Carroll's contemporary reviewers. ""The Academy""s Andrew Lang criticised Carroll's decision to use poetry instead"
"(""The Hunting of the Snark""). One of the front pages states (quote): This may be confusing. Some library records for ""Phantasmagoria and Other Poems"", and other sources concerning that title, provide a list of contents that includes the four poems first published in 1883. That is because Macmillan re-used the old title ""Phantasmagoria and Other Poems"" for a different collection in 1911 and stated on its title page: ""First published in 1869."" In fact it is a reissue of ""Rhyme? and Reason?"" except that ""The Hunting of the Snark"" is omitted. See Ebook #651 at Project Gutenberg, whose source is"
"""Dreamsnake""; it is also mentioned in the ""Aztecs"", ""Starfarers"" series, and the ""Star Trek III"" novelization. In the ""Star Trek II"" novelization, one of the characters discusses a computer game he has written, named ""Boojum Hunt."" In ""Barbary"", a character refers to a computer game named ""Snarks and Boojums."" Both are references to Lewis Carroll's poem ""The Hunting of the Snark"". Vonda N. McIntyre Vonda Neel McIntyre (born August 28, 1948) is an American science fiction author. Vonda N. McIntyre was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the daughter of H. Neel and Vonda B. Keith McIntyre. She spent her early childhood"
"favourite young friends; in a typical fashion, he signed them with short poems, many of them acrostics of the child's name. He dedicated ""The Hunting of the Snark"" to Chataway, whom he had befriended in summer 1875 at the English seaside town Sandown on the Isle of Wight. He finished the dedication a month after befriending her, a double acrostic poem that not only spelled out her name, but contained a syllable of her name in the first line of each stanza. The stanza of his first draft concluded """"Rest on a friendly knee, the tale to ask / That"
"Jacques Roubaud Jacques Roubaud (; born 5 December 1932 in Caluire-et-Cuire, Rhône) is a French poet and mathematician. Jacques Roubaud was a professor of Mathematics at University of Paris X. He is a retired Poetry professor from EHESS and a member of the Oulipo group, he has also published poetry, plays, novels, and translated English poetry and books into French such as Lewis Carroll's ""The Hunting of the Snark"". French poet and novelist Raymond Queneau had Roubaud's first book, a collection of mathematically structured sonnets, published by Éditions Gallimard, and then invited Roubaud to join the Oulipo as the organization's"
"Wonderland"", and mentions of ""candle-ends"" and ""toasted cheese"" with his supernatural poem ""Phantasmagoria"". Additionally all three works include the number ""42"". Another of Carroll's children's novels, ""Sylvie and Bruno Concluded"" (1893) makes a reference to the Boojum. Other illustrators of ""The Hunting of the Snark"" include Peter Newell (1903), Edward A. Wilson (1932), Mervyn Peake (1941), Aldren Watson (1952), Tove Jansson (1959), Helen Oxenbury (1970), Byron Sewell (1974), John Minnion (1974), Harold Jones (1975), Ralph Steadman (1975), Quentin Blake (1976), Frank Hinder (1989) and Brian Puttock (1997). ""The Hunting of the Snark"" has seen various adaptations into musicals, opera, theatre,"
"Becker Lennon, the poem's ""motif of loss of name or identity"" is typical of Carroll's work. Richard Kelly writes that the poem contains a ""theme of annihilation."" Furthermore, Edward Guiliano feels that the ""Snark"" is within the nonsense tradition of Thomas Hood and, especially, W. S. Gilbert, the librettist of the famous Gilbert and Sullivan team. According to him, a case can be made for a direct influence of Gilbert's Bab Ballads on ""The Hunting of the Snark"", based on the fact that Carroll was well-acquainted with the comic writing and the theatre of his age. In response to various"
"Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark. One source indicates that the dialogue in fact began as an ad lib by actor Joseph Cawthorn, covering for some kind of backstage problem during a performance. The Word is also referred in one of the Little Nemo comic strips published in 1909 (April 11). After being held down by nine policemen during a hysteria crisis, Nemo’s father tells the doctor: “Just keep those whiffenpoofs away. Will you?”. Despite the show's success, it failed to make back its investment due to its enormous expenses, and came to an end in December 1910. In"
"As a great admirer of Lewis Carroll Elliot also produced illustrations for ""The Hunting of the Snark"" (Private Press edition, with the University of Otago in Dunedin, 2006). Elliot has also collaborated on two books with New Zealand's best loved children's writer and winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award, Margaret Mahy, ""The Word Witch"" and ""The Moon and Farmer McPhee"", which won the award for the best children's book in the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards in 2011. More recently, Elliot wrote and illustrated ""Snark: being a true history of the expedition that discovered the Snark and the"
"The Spiritual Hunt The Spiritual Hunt () is a prose poem purportedly written by French writer Arthur Rimbaud, claimed to be his masterpiece by his friend and lover Paul Verlaine. Supposedly strongly resembling in form the only book he published during his lifetime, ""A Season in Hell"", the poem is considered to be one of the most famous lost artworks. Even though in 1949, a twelve-page work by the same title was unveiled to the public by Pascal Pia; Rimbaud scholars, almost unanimously, have denounced this poem as a literary forgery. The poem was first mentioned by Paul Verlaine, who"
"The Cruise of the Snark The Cruise of the Snark (1911) is a non-fictional, illustrated book by Jack London chronicling his sailing adventure in 1907 across the south Pacific in his ketch the ""Snark"". Accompanying London on this voyage was his wife Charmian London and a small crew. London taught himself celestial navigation and the basics of sailing and of boats during the course of this adventure and describes these details to the reader. He visits exotic locations including the Solomon Islands and Hawaii, and his first-person accounts and photographs provide insight into these remote places at the beginning of"
"The Panther (poem) The Panther (subtitled: ""In Jardin des Plantes, Paris"") is a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke written on 6 November 1902. It describes a captured panther behind bars, as it was exhibited in the Ménagerie of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. It is one of Rilke's most famous poems and has been translated into English many times, including by many distinguished translators of Rilke, like Stephen Mitchell, C. F. MacIntyre, J. B. Leishman and Walter Arndt, Jessie Lamont and poets like Robert Bly. It is used in the film ""Awakenings"" (1990) by the protagonist Leonard Lowe as"
"replaces the standard poetry anthologies with the usual geographic or chronological format for most reference works, with classifications like ""academic sleaze"", ""poultry poems"", ""bent genes poems"", and ""Disney poems"". Each category has a selection of classic and contemporary poets, which embody the spirit of each genre, tied together with Peters' critical analysis. Poet and noted biographer of Sylvia Plath, Edward Butcher, wrote an essay on Peters, stating that he ""fairly categorized terminologically American poems and poets with his original poetic terminology"". Hunting the Snark Hunting the Snark is a compendium of poetic terminology that mirrored American contemporary poetry of nineteen"
"in that never ending pursuit."" J.F.X. O'Conor, S.J. The Hound of Heaven ""The Hound of Heaven"" is a 182-line poem written by English poet Francis Thompson (1859–1907). The poem became famous and was the source of much of Thompson's posthumous reputation. The poem was first published in Thompson's first volume of poems in 1893. It was included in the ""Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse"" (1917). Thompson's work was praised by G. K. Chesterton, and it was also an influence on J. R. R. Tolkien, who presented a paper on Thompson in 1914. This Christian poem has been described as"
"and dreams of witnessing a court trial of a pig accused of deserting its sty. During the hunt, the Banker is attacked by a bandersnatch, and loses his sanity after trying to bribe the creature. The Baker rushes ahead of the party, and calls out that he has found a snark, but when the others arrive, he has mysteriously disappeared, leading the narrator to explain: ""For the Snark ""was"" a Boojum, you see."" Two explanations of which event in Carroll's life gave rise to ""The Hunting of the Snark"" have been offered. Biographer Morton N. Cohen connects the creation of"
"The Secrets of Angling The Secrets of Angling was a book written by John Dennys. It was the earliest English poetical treatise on fishing, first published in 1613 in London. A didactic pastoral poem in 3 books, in the style of Virgil's Georgics. It was published in 4 editions until 1652, examples of which are amongst the rarest books in existence. Dennys's poem was published anonymously, 4 years posthumously, and for 198 years the poem was misattributed, its authorship remaining a mystery until 1811. First published in 1613, Dennys's book was published after his death. The author was identified by"
"Fiacha an tSolais Fiacha an tSolais ""(English: The Pursuit of Light)"" is the title of a poem by Irish poet Cathal Ó Searcaigh ""(English: Charles Sharkey)"", first put to paper in the 1990s. It has been on the Irish exam for the Leaving Certificate in the Republic of Ireland. The poet describes the life of an alcoholic who was found dead at the age of 29 on a cold winter day outdoors in County Donegal in Ireland. The final stanza beings with: ""Ach an té a dhéanann faillí i bhfiacha an tsolais (English: But he who neglects the pursuit of"
"of prose and its too appealing title. ""The Athenaeum"" described it as ""the most bewildering of modern poetry,"" wondering ""if he has merely been inspired to reduce to idiotcy as many readers and more especially reviewers, as possible."" According to ""Vanity Fair"", Carroll's work had progressively worsened after ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" (1865), with ""The Hunting of the Snark"" being the worst of his works and ""not worthy [of] the name of nonsense"". While ""The Spectator"" wrote that the poem's final line had the potential to become a proverb, it criticised the poem as ""a failure"" that might have succeeded"
"The Ballad of Reading Gaol The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand, after his release from Reading Gaol () on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison. During his imprisonment, on Tuesday, 7 July 1896, a hanging took place. Charles Thomas Wooldridge had been a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards. He was convicted of cutting the throat of his wife, Laura Ellen, earlier that year at Clewer, near Windsor. He was"
"with more work from the author. ""The Saturday Review"" wrote that the poem offered ""endless speculation"" as to the true identity of the snark, although the unnamed reviewer felt that the familiar nature of Carroll's nonsense weakened its effect for the reader. Conversely, ""The Graphic"" praised the poem as a welcome departure from the ""Alice"" books, and called it ""a glorious piece of nonsense,"" that could appeal to all ""Alice"" fans. ""The Hunting of the Snark"" has in common some elements with Carroll's other works. It shares its author's love of puns on the word 'fit' with ""Alice's Adventures in"
"violation of the laws of nature by hoping to unravel its mysteries. Lennon sees ""The Hunting of the Snark"" as ""a tragedy of frustration and bafflement,"" comparable to British actor Charlie Chaplin's early comedies. According to Kelly, ""The Hunting of the Snark"" is ""Carroll's comic rendition of his fears of disorder and chaos, with the comedy serving as a psychological defense against the devastating idea of personal annihilation."" Kelly writes that the Bellman's Rule of Three and starting each character's name with the letter B are ""notable attempts to create a sense of order and meaning out of chaos."" Martin"
"The Snake (song) ""The Snake"" is a song and single released by American singer Al Wilson in 1968, and written by civil-rights activist Oscar Brown in 1963. The lyrics tell a story inspired by Aesop's fable of The Farmer and the Viper. Although released in 1968 in both the United States and the UK, due to exposure of the song on the UK northern soul scene, it entered the UK Singles Chart in August 1975 when reissued, reaching number 41 in September. The success of ""The Snake"" on the northern soul nightclub circuit has led to it being ranked 4"
"voyage. } The Cruise of the Snark The Cruise of the Snark (1911) is a non-fictional, illustrated book by Jack London chronicling his sailing adventure in 1907 across the south Pacific in his ketch the ""Snark"". Accompanying London on this voyage was his wife Charmian London and a small crew. London taught himself celestial navigation and the basics of sailing and of boats during the course of this adventure and describes these details to the reader. He visits exotic locations including the Solomon Islands and Hawaii, and his first-person accounts and photographs provide insight into these remote places at the"