Selected poems - Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll's nonsense poems have been astonishing popular with children and adults alike since the first publication of Alice in Wonderland in 1865, and have influenced the work of a host of modern writers, including James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borgese and Vladimir Nabokov.

This generous selection of Carroll's verse serves as an ideal introduction to his work. It includes the best-known Alice poems as well as 'Sylvie and Bruno', 'The Hunting of the Snark' and pieces from Phantasmagoria the text is illustrated with a number of the evocative original Tenniel drawings.

Lewis Carroll was born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, in 1832.He was educated at Rugby School and at Christ Church, Oxford.He was a mathematical lecturer at Oxford from 1855 to 1881 and became one of England's most popular writers for children, with the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass.He died in 1898.