The Hunting of the Snark Becker Lennon, the poem's "motif of loss of name or identity" is typical of Carroll's work. Richard Kelly writes that the poem contains a "theme of annihilation." Furthermore, Edward Guiliano feels that the "Snark" is within the nonsense tradition of Thomas Hood and, especially, W. S. Gilbert, the librettist of the famous Gilbert and Sullivan team. According to him, a case can be made for a direct influence of Gilbert's Bab Ballads on "The Hunting of the Snark", based on the fact that Carroll was well-acquainted with the comic writing and the theatre of his age. In response to various
The Right to Love (Liane Carroll album) The Right to Love (Liane Carroll album) The Right to Love is a studio album by English jazz pianist/vocalist Liane Carroll and her fourth collaboration with jazz trumpeter and record producer James McMillan. Released in July 2017 by Quietmoney Recordings and distributed by Proper Records, it received four-starred reviews in "The Observer" and the "Evening Standard". Dave Gelly, reviewing "The Right to Love" in "The Observer", gave the album four stars and said it displayed "a characteristic mixture of deceptive simplicity and emotional depth". John Lewis, in a four-starred review for "The Guardian", described it as "an elegant song suite...