Harold Beaver (essay date 1976)
SOURCE: Beaver, Harold. “Whale or Boojum: An Agony.” In Lewis Carroll Observed: A Collection of Unpublished Photographs, Drawings, Poetry, and New Essays, edited by Edward Guiliano, pp. 111-31. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1976.
[In the following essay, Beaver explores the alleged connections between The Hunting of the Snark and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.]
Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind...
Source: Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, ©2004 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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