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Inset: Henry Holiday (engraver: Joseph Swain), illustration (1876) to the chapter The Beaver’s Lesson in Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark, detail. Reply reply Top 34% Rank by size . More posts you may like r/LewisCarroll. r/LewisCarroll. The mind behind Alice in Wonderland, among other things. ...
Lewis Carroll's tragicomical poem *The Hunting of the Snark* (with illustrations by Henry Holiday) is not just a funny nonsense poem, it is a tragicomedy about legitimate controversy (*Snark*) turning into lethal fundamentalism, fanaticism and zealotry (*Boojum*).
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In 2004 he interpreted the starry night sky in Henry Holiday’s front cover illustration to Lewis Carroll’s “The Hunting of the Snark” (1876) as a map, where the white clouds represented land with rivers. I liked the suggestion, but did not find any real-world map to which Holiday might have alluded.
