The Hunting of the Snark of prose and its too appealing title. "The Athenaeum" described it as "the most bewildering of modern poetry," wondering "if he has merely been inspired to reduce to idiotcy as many readers and more especially reviewers, as possible." According to "Vanity Fair", Carroll's work had progressively worsened after "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1865), with "The Hunting of the Snark" being the worst of his works and "not worthy [of] the name of nonsense". While "The Spectator" wrote that the poem's final line had the potential to become a proverb, it criticised the poem as "a failure" that might have succeeded
Hunting the Hun Hunting the Hun "Hunting the Hun" is the name of a war song that was popular during World War I. It was performed by Arthur Fields, music by Archie Gottler and words by Howard E. Rogers. It was published by Kalmar Puck & Abrahams in New York in 1918. "Hun" was a wartime dysphemism meaning "German". <poem> Hunting The Hun Over in France there's a game that's played By all the soldier boys in each brigade It's called Hunting the Hun This is how it is done! First you go get a gun Then you look for a Hun Then