Phantasmagoria and Other Poems

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Phantasmagoria and Other Poems is a poetry collection by Lewis Carroll . It was first published in 1869 by Macmillan Publishers . It also forms the basis for the other two collections of poetry Rhyme? And Reason? and Three Sunsets and Other Poems , in which most of the poems in this collection were reprinted.

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The book is divided into two parts. The first part contains the more comical poems, the second the serious ones, including some love poems.

Part 1

Phantasmagoria
This poem is Lewis Carroll's longest poem. In its seven cantos , it tells of a man who, as a first-person narrator, tells how a ghost visits him one evening. A long conversation develops between them, during which the ghost reports a lot about the ghost life. But finally the ghost is annoyed to discover that it has visited the wrong house. The next morning the first-person narrator wakes up and asks himself whether he was just dreaming the incident.
A valentine
A poem about friendship that Carroll originally wrote for a friend who said Carroll was happy to see him but wouldn’t miss him if he stayed away.
A Sea Dirge
The poem deals with the disadvantages of living by the sea.
Ye Carpette Knyghte
A poem in pseudo-medieval English.
Hiawatha's Photographing
To the tune of the song The Song of Hiawatha , Carroll tells of a photographer named Hiawatha who visits a family to take portraits and group photos.
The Lang Coortin '
The poem is about a man who shows love for his loved one for many years, but she ignores him.
Melancholetta
The narrator tries to cheer up his depressed sister, but his efforts fail.
The Three Voices
A parody of Tennyson's The Two Voices .
A Doble Acrostic
The double acrostic is a riddle in which each stanza paraphrases a word, the first and last letters in each case make up the two solution words.
Size and tears
A poem about discord between a thin and a fat man.
Poeta fit, not nascitur
Poem about the art of writing poetry
Atalanta in Camden Town
The Elections to the Hebdomadal Council
A satirical poem about Oxford university politics .

Part 2

The Valley of the Shadow of Death
In this poem Carroll processed the end of his relationship with Mrs. Liddell.
Beatrice
Lines
An acrostic that gives the names of the three Liddell sisters Lorina, Alice and Edith.
The Path of Roses
A poem about Florence Nightingale , written shortly after the Crimean War .
The Sailor's Wife
On a stormy night, a sailor's wife has a vision that her husband will be shipwrecked. But as day approaches, the storm leaves and her husband returns home.
Stolen Waters
Stanzas for Music
Solitude
A poem that praises the loneliness in the forest.
Only a woman's hair
The title of the poem comes from The Life of Dean Swift , which mentions that after his death a curl was found with these words.
Three sun sets
Christmas Greetings
Good wishes for Christmas and the New Year.
After three days
This poem was written by Carroll after seeing Holman Hunt's painting The Finding of Christ in the Temple , so it deals with the finding in the temple .
Faces in the Fire
The first-person narrator sees the face of an old friend while looking at a fire until the fire finally goes out.

Factory history

Phantasmagoria and Other Poems is Lewis Carroll's first collection of poems. Originally he wanted George du Maurier to illustrate it, but it never came to that. Phantasmagoria contains many poems previously published in various magazines, including family magazines belonging to the Dodgson family , but also some new poems.

Illustration of Frost from Rhyme? And Reason?

Under the title Rhyme? And Reason? Another collection of poems appeared in 1883. It contains the first part with some changes and also the nonsense balade The Hunting of the Snark . The poems appear in a slightly different order and partially revised, the double acrostic has been supplemented by another and two charades , The Elections to the Hebdomadal Council is missing, it was later reprinted in Notes by an Oxford Chiel . There are four new poems for this: Echoes , Tèma Con Variazióni (Carroll uses four lines from Thomas Moore's poem The Fire-Worshippers from Lalla Rookh and adds three lines of its own to each, so that a new poem with four stanzas results), A Game of Fives and Fame's Penny-Trumpet (a critical poem against vivisection ). Several poems have been revised for the new edition. The illustrations for the Snark are by Henry Holiday , for the other poems Arthur Burdett Frost does the illustrations.

The second part was reprinted in the third collection of poems Three Sunsets and Other Poems in 1898, also in a revised form, illustrated by Gertrude Thomson with images of fairies without any reference to content. This collection also contains the poems Far Away and A Song of Love from Sylvie and Bruno , as well as A Lesson in Latin and Puck Lost and Found . The poems Lines and Christmas Greetings are missing, however.

Later editions of Phantasmagoria and Other Poems only contain the first, revised part, so do you agree with Rhyme? And Reason? agree, only The Hunting of the Snark is missing.

The work has also been translated into many other languages , including German, French and Spanish.

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Wikisource: Phantasmagoria and Other Poems  - Sources and full texts (English)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Y, n. I. 1. (3). In: Oxford English Dictionary
  2. ^ Günther Flemming: Lewis Carroll: Alice. Volume 3. epubli, 2013. ISBN 978-3-8442-6493-7 . P. 585f.
  3. ^ A b Stuart Dodgson Collingwood: The Life and Letters Of Lewis Carroll. Kessinger Publishing, 2004, ISBN 1-4179-2625-2 . ( The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll in Project Gutenberg ( currently usually not available for users from Germany ) )
  4. ↑ Phantasmagoria. Translated into French by Henri Parisot. Beresniak, Paris, 1939.
  5. ↑ Fantasmagoría. Translated into Spanish by Javier La Orden Trimollet. Alba, Barcelone, 2000. ISBN 978-84-8428-062-0