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The Hunting of the Snark
The Hunting of the Snark is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll. You can read the full text here.
The Hunting of the Snark
No. of pages 64
Published: 2000
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'Mervyn Peake has a magic in his pen. He can annihilate the dimensions.' (Charles Morgan, 1947) This is true of Peake's writing and his drawings, as these illustrations to Lewis Carroll's mock-heroic nonsense poem testify. Richly brought to life with some of Peake's most exquisite line drawings THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK is a brilliant marriage of two of the most inventive imaginations. Carroll claimed that the inspiration for THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK (1876) sprang from 'one line of verse - one solitary line of verse - "For the Snark was a Boojum, you see"', that came to him one day in 1874 while he was out walking. To questions asking whether the poem was an allegory, or a political satire, or contained some hidden moral, he claimed to have 'but one answer, "I don't know!"' (The Theatre, 1887). This edition, re-originated from original artwork, includes a selection of Peake's working sketches never before published.
There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2000 by Methuen Publishing Ltd .
Mervyn Peake (1911 - 1968) was one of the most important British novelists of the late twentieth century. Although best known for his Gormenghast trilogy, he was also widely admired for his work as an artist and illustrator, including his work on Grimm's Household Tales, which was republished by the British Library in 2012. Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832-1898. Alice in Wonderland was first published in 1865.
