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| | §16. Lewis Carroll. VI. Lesser Poets of the Middle and Later Nineteenth Century. Vol. 13. The Victorian Age, Part ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | In some respects, and those important ones, it comes nearer to Lears than to any other by the approximation to nursery rimes; he wrote pure nonsense sometimes; the use of jargon in proper, and, indeed, in common, names and so forth. |
 | | But, it is, in others, not far from Calverleysthe two men, indeed, were born close together and must have been actual contemporaries at Oxford before Calverley migrated. |
 | | Dodgsons academic vein, however, was mathematical not classical, and there is something of the manipulation of symbols in his systematical absurdity and the nonsensical preciseness of his humour. |
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