‘Tis two score years since Carroll’s art, With topsy-turvy magic, Sent Alice wondering through a part Half-comic and half-tragic.Enchanting Alice! Black-and-white Has made your deeds perennial;And naught save ‘Chaos and old Night’Can part you now from Tenniel;But still you are a Type, and based In Truth, like Lear and Hamlet;And Types may be re-draped to taste In cloth-of-gold or camlet.
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer of children’s fiction, notably Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass. He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy. The poems ‘Jabberwocky’ and The Hunting of the Snark are classified in the genre of literary nonsense. He was also a mathematician, photographer, inventor and Anglican deacon.