Tag Archives: Lewis Carroll

‘Library Notes’ (2)

Posted on July 3, 2026 by Patrick Miles

This children’s book of 79 lines of poetry was stuck on its side behind the Brodsky section of my library (six books published between 1967 and 1993). I’d completely forgotten its existence — although it was clearly inscribed by me … Continue reading →

Posted in Heroism and Adventure, Personal commentary, Uncategorized | Tagged Alexander Pushkin, Anton Chekhov, ballads, censorship, children's literature, comments, Constantine Cafavy, Edward Lear, fairytales, Joseph Brodsky, Kornei Chukovskii, Leningrad, Lewis Carroll, Metropol Hotel, nonsense poetry, nursery rhymes, The Little Tugboat, USSR, Viktor Tauber, Z. Arshakuni | Leave a comment

Attempting to not-bore for England about limericks

Posted on January 19, 2018 by Patrick Miles

I must apologise to all subscribers for their having received notification last week of a blog post that had no text in it! This was the result of human error, aka Aussie Flu. Unfortunately, when I did write the text … Continue reading →

Posted in Edwardian character, Edwardian literature, Modern parallels, Personal commentary | Tagged Alfred Tennyson, biographies, biography, comments, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Lear, Evey Pym, Foxwold, Franz Kafka, George Calderon, Horatio Nelson, Jenny Uglow, John Pym, Joseph Brodsky, Karl Marx, Kittie Calderon, Lewis Carroll, limericks, Marie Curie, Rudyard Kipling, Russia, Violet Pym, Wadham College | 3 Comments

A not-paradox, a not-paradox, a most ingenuous not-paradox

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Patrick Miles

In my post of 8 October 2016 I discussed George Calderon’s love of paradox and suggested that the ‘self-referential’ paradoxes in his plays might have been influenced by his following ‘developments in set theory in the 1900s, as he was an … Continue reading →

Posted in Edwardian character, Edwardian English, Edwardian literature, Modern parallels, Personal commentary | Tagged Albert Einstein, anomalies, anomalous expansion of water, Anton Chekhov, biographies, biography, Bryan, C.P. Snow, comments, contradiction, Daily News, Dardanelles, Fermi's Paradox, Frankfurt Book Fair, Gallipoli, Geminae, George Calderon, Gilbert and Sullivan, incongruity, Jim Al-Khalili, John Polkinghorne, Laurence Binyon, Lewis Carroll, Lord Weidenfeld, mathematicians, Maxwell's Demon, multiverse, overcrowding, paradox, quantum physics, relativity, Russell's Paradox, Schrödinger's Cat, science, set theory, Simon Baron-Cohen, String Theory, The Barber Paradox, The Fountain, The Grandfather Paradox, The Great War, The Lamp, The Liar Paradox, The Lieutenant's Heroine, The Little Stone House, The Paradox of the Twins, The Pirates of Penzance, The Pole in the Barn Paradox, the soul, The Two Talismans, The Walrus and the Carpenter, time travel, Trinity College Oxford, World War I, wormholes, Zeno | 4 Comments

Zamyatin: Ross: Calderon

Posted on July 5, 2016 by Patrick Miles

Everyone should read Zamyatin’s anti-Utopian novel We, which had such an impact on George Orwell and is so different from his own 1984. But I don’t believe newcomers to Zamyatin should start with the masterpiece… The best way into the delightful, … Continue reading →

Posted in Edwardian character, Edwardian marriage, Modern parallels, Personal commentary | Tagged A Fisher of Men, Archibald Campbell Ross, Armstrong Whitworth, George Campbell Ross, George Orwell, Glasgow, Heathland Lodge, Heddon-on-the Wall, Hilliard Booth, J.A.E. Curtis, Jesmond, John Dewey, Lewis Carroll, Manya Ross, Mariia Iakovlevna Guseva, Mary Hamilton, May Hamilton, Nancy Knox, Nancy Lang, Newcastle upon Tyne, Pall Mall Gazette, R.& W. Hawthorn, The Islanders, The Red Lamp, The Seagull, We, White Raven, Yevgeniy Zamyatin | Leave a comment

George Calderon: a tribute

Posted on June 7, 2015 by Patrick Miles

As I have written before, the question everyone asks me is: ‘Who is George Calderon?’ Perhaps unconsciously, some people seem to intonate this as a rhetorical question implying: ‘Why are you spending years of your life writing about a person … Continue reading →

Posted in Edwardian character, Edwardian literature, Heroism and Adventure, Personal commentary | Tagged 'real time', Aldous Huxley, Anton Chekhov, Aylmer Maude, Bernard Pares, biographies, biography, comments, Constance Garnett, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, George Calderon, George Orwell, Henry Newbolt, Julia Bush, Khodynka, Kittie Calderon, Leonid Andreyev, Lev Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll, Maksim Gorky, Martin Shaw, Maurice Baring, Michael Frayn, Michel Fokine, Nicholas II, Oxford, Paul Gauguin, Percy Lubbock, Rupert Brooke, Sergei Rakhmaninov, Stephen Graham, Tahiti, The Great War, Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Korolenko, World War I | 1 Comment

‘An obscure mixture of feelings’

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Patrick Miles

I try reading the London Review of Books about twice a year, but each time end by flinging it in the bin: it’s not a literary publication, it’s a political one written by amateur politicians. And what I can’t take about … Continue reading →