Tag: Lewis Carroll

Literature

A Short Analysis of Lewis Carroll’s ‘How Doth the Little Crocodile’

‘How Doth the Little Crocodile’ is a poem by Lewis Carroll, one of the two acknowledged masters of Victorian nonsense verse (along with Edward Lear). Although the poem is among his most popular, after ‘Jabberwocky’, ‘The Walrus and the Carpenter’, and The Hunting of the Snark, its curious origins are […]

Literature

The Best Lewis Carroll Poems

Five of the best pieces of Carrollian nonsense selected by Dr Oliver Tearle Lewis Carroll (1832-98) is probably best-remembered for his two novels for children, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. The latter of these two books contained the classic nonsense poem, ‘Jabberwocky’, and Carroll’s poetry can easily […]