A Selection from Three Sunsets and Other Poems - Бесплатное архивное аудио

A Selection from Three Sunsets and Other Poems

By Lewis Carroll

Narrated by Denis Daly

While he is most famous for his imaginative children’s fiction, Lewis Carroll also wrote some poetry on serious subjects. While it now appears rather dated, Carroll’s verse is composed with a self-effacing skill which raises it above the conventionality of Victorian sentimentality.

Many of the poems in this collection came from Phantasmagoria and other Poems, which Carroll published in 1869.

“The Path of Roses” was written soon after the Crimean War, when the name of Florence Nightingale had already become a household-word.

“Far Away” was reprinted from Carroll’s fantasy novel, Sylvie and Bruno.

“Only a Woman’s Hair” was suggested by a circumstance mentioned in The Life of Dean Swift, viz., that, after his death, a small packet was found among his papers, containing a single lock of hair and inscribed with those words.

“A Lesson in Latin” is reprinted from The Jabberwock, a Magazine got up among the Members of “The Girls’ Latin School, Boston, U.S.A.”

“Beatrice” and “The Sailor’s Wife” were composed for this collection.

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