Ye Carpette Knyghte 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.
Ye Carpette Knyghte (1856) - A poem written with pseudo-medieval spelling.
Despite Carroll's ignorance of basic medieval English, its appeal to his
imagination led to this experiment. Opening lines: I have a horse- a ryghte
goode horse- / Ne doe Y envye those.
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