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entitled " Upon the Lonely Moor," and is headed 

 with this explanatory note : " It is always 

 interesting to ascertain the sources from which 

 our great poets obtained their ideas ; this motive 

 has dictated the production of the following, 

 painful as its appearance must be to the admirers 

 of Wordsworth and his poem of ' Resolution and 

 Independence.' " The poem is not signed but 

 it follows immediately after an article on poetry 

 — "Novelty and Romancement" — by "Lewis 

 Carroll," and some of its verses are almost 

 identical with the corresponding ones in that 

 in the child's book ; there is thus no room for 

 doubt as to the authorship of the original poem. 

 By the by, in the signed article is the follow- 

 ing passage, which to a certain extent explains 

 the curious nonsense-rhymes ot " Alice " and 

 " Through the Looking-glass." In an assumed 

 character Dodgson writes: "My thirst and passion 

 from boyhood (predominating over the love of 

 taws, and running neck and neck with my appetite 

 for toffey) has been for poetry — for poetry in its 

 widest and wildest sense — for poetry untram- 

 melled by the laws of sense, rhyme or rhythm, 

 soaring through the universe, and echoing the 

 music of the spheres. From my youth, nay, 

 from my very cradle, I have yearned for poetry, 

 for beauty, for novelty, for romancement." True, 

 in the denouement of the story the lover of 

 " romancement " finds the sign-board which at 



