Phantasmagoria (poem) the 1911 collection. 1911 collection of 16 poems, illustrated by Arthur B. Frost. This collection matches the 1883 "Rhyme? and Reason?" in contents and sequence, except that it does not contain "The Hunting of the Snark" (and thus contains no illustrations by Holiday). A copy of the first edition is the source for Project Gutenberg Ebook #651. 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
Lewis Carroll In broad terms, Dodgson has traditionally been regarded as politically, religiously, and personally conservative. Martin Gardner labels Dodgson as a Tory who was "awed by lords and inclined to be snobbish towards inferiors." The Reverend W. Tuckwell, in his "Reminiscences of Oxford" (1900), regarded him as "austere, shy, precise, absorbed in mathematical reverie, watchfully tenacious of his dignity, stiffly conservative in political, theological, social theory, his life mapped out in squares like Alice's landscape." Dodgson was ordained a deacon in the Church of England on 22 December 1861. In "The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll", the editor states that