A Conversation for h2g2 Literary Corner: A Sea Dirge, by Lewis Carroll
For someone who hated the sea so much…
Bluebottle Started conversation Jul 10, 2017
Carroll always returned year after year to spend the summer at the seaside, later on in my home town of Sandown in 1876 and also frequently at Eastbourne.
I think he wrote this poem in the 1860s before he discovered the Isle of Wight.
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For someone who hated the sea so much…
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Jul 10, 2017
That must have been it.
Or he was just being ironic. 
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