The Hunting of the Snark he delights to tell."" The poem was printed in "The Hunting of the Snark" with permission from Chataway's mother. Included with many copies of the first edition of "The Hunting of the Snark" was Carroll's three-page, religious tract to his young readers, "An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves "Alice"". Largely written on 5 February 1876, "An Easter Greeting" explores the concept of innocence and eternal life through biblical allusions and literary allusions to Romantic writers William Blake and William Wordsworth. Gardner suggests that Carroll included the tract as a way of balancing the dark tone of the poem.
Phantasmagoria (poem) Phantasmagoria (poem) "Phantasmagoria" is a poem written by Lewis Carroll and first published in 1869 as the opening poem of a collection of verse by Carroll entitled "Phantasmagoria and Other Poems". The collection was also published under the name "Rhyme? And Reason?" It is Lewis Carroll's longest poem. Both the poem and the collection were illustrated by A. B. Frost. "Phantasmagoria" is a narrative discussion written in seven cantos between a ghost (a Phantom) and a man named Tibbets. Carroll portrays the ghost as not so different from human beings: although ghosts may jibber and jangle their chains, they, like