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In Through the Looking-Glass, when Alice meets the fumbling White Knight, he volunteers to sing her a song that is sometimes referred to as “The Aged Aged Man,” or “A-Sitting on a Gate,” “Haddock’s Eyes,” “I’ll Tell Thee Everything I Can,” or other titles. Now available to LCSNA members is Matthew Demakos’ The Annotated Song of the White Knight: Errant Illuminations on Lewis Carroll’s Farcical Ode, an extended and profusely illustrated book that explicates the origins of the verses and analysis of the text, and examines Carroll’s amendments made from the earlier 1856 version. For the first time, this book discusses the White Knight’s false claim that “the tune’s my own invention,” describing instead how the melody mirrors real life. In addition to the five chapters of the book, there are appendices covering the illustrations of the poem by John Tenniel and many others, and even the Guinness parodies! The complete 96-page PDF is available for download by Lewis Carroll Society of North America (LCSNA) members only. For those who are not yet members of the LCSNA, now would be a great time to join!
Matthew Demakos is a Carrollian scholar and longtime LCSNA member who has been writing about the life and works of Lewis Carroll for over twenty years. His catalogue also contains many important publications on John Tenniel.
