"The last of the crew needs especial remark,
Though he looked an incredible dunce:
He had just one ideaâbut, that one being âSnarkâ,
The good Bellman engaged him at once."
âThe Hunting of the Snarkâ (1876) is a nonsense poem by âAlice Adventures in Wonderlandâ author Lewis Carroll. It describes the disastrous hunting mission by a bizarre group of characters, among these a butcher who can only kill beavers and a guy who forgot his own name. Gloriously nonsensical, this poem is bound to appeal to all fans of Alice.
Lewis Caroll, pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, (1832-1898), was a British mathematician, photographer, and childrenâs book author. The idea for his most famous work, 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', came to Carroll when he was on a boat with friends, having to entertain three young girls, one of whose name was Alice. Despite his success as a childrenâs book author, Carroll considered himself, first and foremost, a man of science and mathematics.
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