The poetic Mr Augustus Snodgrass - Thomas Nast (1873)
Created by
Charles Dickens
In-universe information
Gender
Male
Occupation
Poet Farmer
Significant other
Mrs Snodgrass (wife)
Nationality
English
Augustus Snodgrass is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's first novel, The Pickwick Papers (1836). He considers himself a Romantic poet, though there is no mention of any of his own poetry in the novel.[1][2]
A founder and younger member of the Pickwick Club created by the retired businessman Samuel Pickwick, he is one of Pickwick's travelling companions along with Nathaniel Winkle and Tracy Tupman who extend their scientific researches into the quaint and curious phenomena of British rural life by travelling to locations far distant from London to report on their findings to the other "Pickwickians" remaining at home.[3]
Introduced by Dickens in Chapter One of The Pickwick Papers, Dickens does little to develop the character of Snodgrass in the novel. While described as a poet, and keeping extensive notes of his ideas for poems,[4] he writes none throughout the story, at least, none that are mentioned or that he reads to his fellow travellers. In this way Snodgrass is depicted as an artistic poser, taking on the airs of artistry but with nothing achieved. At the inaugural meeting of the Pickwick Society Snodgrass is appointed the group's official poet and deputy-leader: "On the left of his great leader sat the poetic Snodgrass" (I, 10). While visiting Manor Farm in Dingley Dell in Kent Snodgrass falls in love with and eventually marries Emily Wardle.[5]
By the end of the novel:
'Christmas Eve at Mr. Wardle's' - Snodgrass and Miss Wardle dancing - detail of Hablot Knight Browne's illustration (1837)
Mr. and Mrs. Snodgrass settled at Dingley Dell, where they purchased and cultivated a small farm, more for occupation than profit. Mr. Snodgrass, being occasionally abstracted and melancholy, is to this day reputed a great poet among his friends and acquaintance, although we do not find that he has ever written anything to encourage the belief. There are many celebrated characters, literary, philosophical, and otherwise, who hold a high reputation on a similar tenure.[6]
^Augustus Snodgrass: Characters In The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens Info website
^Augustus Snodgrass, Characters in Dickens - The Charles Dickens site
^The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club, The Pickwick Association website
^Characters of The Pickwick Papers, eNotes.com
^The Illustrators of Augustus Snodgrass, The Victorian Web database
^Dickens, Charles. The Pickwick Papers, Chapter 57, "In which the Pickwick Club is finally dissolved, and every thing concluded to the satisfaction of every body," VI, 330
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