Acrostic: "Are you deaf Father William?" E-book Author: Lewis Carroll Genre: Literature, Poetry
Carroll, Lewis (pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832-1898) - English
novelist, poet, photographer, and mathematician, best known for his
fantastical childrens' classics. He was a mathematical lecturer at Oxford.
Acrostic: "Are you deaf, Father William?" (1876) - An acrostic is a poem in
which certain letters in the lines (often the first) taken in order form a
name, a word, a motto, or an alphabetical sequence. Opening line: "Are you
deaf, Father William?" the young man said,...
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