C. E. Carryl Biography | Poet

C. E. Carryl lived the greater part of his life in New York, but on retiring from business, he moved to Boston and lived there until his death in the summer of 1920.

Charles Edward Carryl, parent of Guy Wetmore Carryl, was delivered in New York City on December 30, 1842. An officer and director in railroad companies, he still had adequate spare time to write two of the only few worthy rivals of the immortal Alice in Wonderland. These two, Davy and the Goblin (1884), which has gone through twenty printings, and The Admiral's Caravan (1891), contain several lively and pivoting ballads as well as inspired nonsense verses in the manner of his model who, despite the slight difference in spelling, was also a Carroll.

C. E. Carryl spent most of his life in New York, but after he left his job, he decided to live in Boston, where he eventually died in the summer of 1920.