Three Sunsets And Other Poems by Lewis Carroll

The next question is, what is the best time for seeing Fairies? I believe I can tell you all about that. I really don’t see why it shouldn’t be tried, and I’m almost sure that, if you could only catch a Fairy, and put it in the corner, and give it nothing but bread and water for a day or two, you’d find it quite an improved character- it would take down its conceit a little, at all events.

Well then, don’t you think they might be all the better for a little lecturing and punishing now and then? “In the first place, I want to know-dear Child who reads this!-why Fairies should always be teaching us to do our duty, and lecturing us when we go wrong, and we should never teach them anything? You can’t mean to say that Fairies are never greedy, or selfish, or cross, or deceitful, because that would be nonsense, you know. For example, from chapter 13: “All Fairies understand Doggee- that is, Dog-language” or, this lengthy passage from chapter 14: His view of the Good Folk can be both sentimental- and yet cautious and honest. However, it gives a very good idea of the image of fairies that Carroll harboured. This book is far less well-known than the two Alice adventures- and for good reason, as it really isn’t that good. Carroll is not really a writer of ‘fairy tales,’ however strange and fantastical his books may have been, but he did not neglect them entirely.įirstly, there is his follow-up to the Alice stories, Sylvie and Bruno (1889). In an earlier post, I discussed famous the youthful writings on pixies by Lewis Carroll, author of the ‘Alice’ stories. ‘Fairies & Nautilus,’ by Thomas, from Three Sunsets

Three Sunsets And Other Poems by Lewis Carroll