PAPER BOOKS Phantasmagoria And Other Poems

"book introduction text: ""phantasmagoria"" is a poem written by lewis carroll and first published in 1869 as the opening poem of a collection of verses by carroll entitled phantasmagoria and other poems."

it is lewis carroll's longest poem.

“phantasmagoria” is a narrative discussion written in seven cantos between a ghost (a phantom) and a man named tibbets.

carroll, the ghost as not so different from human beings: although ghosts may jibber and jangle their chains, they, like us, simply have a job to do and that job is to haunt.

just as in our society, in the ghost society there is a hierarchy, and ghosts are answerable to the king (who must be addressed as “your royal whiteness”) if they disregard the “maxims of behaviour”.