Charles Lutwidge Dodgson - Lewis Carroll

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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson - Lewis Carroll

English 265  Modern Poetry
Poet: Lewis Carroll
Term Paper
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born on the 27th of January in the year of 1832 and died on the 14th of that same month in 1898. His pseudonym, Lewis Carroll, was born on March 1st, 1856 and was destined to live forever. Most poets live out of sync with the era they exist in, but Caroll lived a particularly bizarre lifestyle. He was a mathematician as well as a poetic scholar. It is rare for someone to excel at either one individually, yet Caroll, a connoisseur of logic and art as well, was able to master both subjects.
The most bizarre aspect of his lifestyle was not his versatility with math and poetry but his dealings with pre-pubescent girls. He adored their company and many historians have deemed Carroll a pedophile. It is not known for sure if he was a pedophile but it is a fact his life was characterized as a series of emotional rejections. This is largely due to the fact that he became attached to these little girls but severed ties with them when they reached the age of puberty. Aficionados of Carroll say his love for the girls was of a protective kind and he was a wonderful man who did a splendid job of maintaining a child's perspective of the world. If he was any type of sexual deviant, he had his urges under rigid control and never touched the c...

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