Fame's Penny-Trumpet 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.
Fame's Penny-Trumpet (1876) - One of Lewis Carroll's poems. This poem, an
attack on men who value money above learning, was privately published by
Carroll after numerous rejections. Opening lines: Blow, blow your trumpets
till they crack, / Ye little men of little souls...
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