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1 online resource (278 pages) |
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Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present |
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Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- PART ONE Form -- 1 Rhythm: childrenâ#x80;#x99;s poetry and the dolnik -- 2 Free play revisited: the poetics of repetition in Blakeâ#x80;#x99;s Songs of Innocence -- 3 Childrenâ#x80;#x99;s poetry at play -- 4 Poetry in prose: Lewis Carrollâ#x80;#x99;s Sylvie and Bruno books -- 5 The rational gothic: the case of Ann Taylorâ#x80;#x99;s â#x80;#x9C;The Hand-Postâ#x80;#x9D; -- PART TWO Embodiment -- 6 The laughing child: childrenâ#x80;#x99;s poetry and the comic mode |
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7 â#x80;#x9C;We may not know, we cannot tellâ#x80;#x9D;: religion and reserve in Victorian childrenâ#x80;#x99;s poetics8 Nursery rhymes: poetry, language, and the body -- 9 â#x80;#x9C;That terrible bugabooâ#x80;#x9D;: the role of music in poetry for children -- 10 Cognitive poetics and the aesthetics of childrenâ#x80;#x99;s poetry: a primer of possibilities -- 11 Inner animals: nature in Ted Hughesâ#x80;#x99;s poems for children -- PART THREE Taste -- 12 Children, poetry, and the eighteenth-century school anthology -- 13 An anthologist at work: Richard Johnson compiles The Poetical Flower-Basket |
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""14 Anthologies: Kenneth Grahame and the landscapes of childrenâ#x80;#x99;s verse"" |
| Summary |
"This collection gives sustained attention to the literary dimensions of children's poetry from the eighteenth century to the present. While reasserting the importance of well-known voices, such as those of Isaac Watts, William Blake, Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti, A.A. Milne, and Carol Ann Duffy, the contributors also reflect on the aesthetic significance of landmark works by less frequently celebrated figures such as Richard Johnson, Ann and Jane Taylor, Cecil Frances Alexander and Michael Rosen. Scholarly treatment of children's poetry has tended to focus on its publication history rather than to explore what comprises - and why we delight in - its idiosyncratic pleasures. And yet arguments about how and why poetic language might appeal to the child are embroiled in the history of children's poetry, whether in Isaac Watts emphasising the didactic efficacy of "like sounds," William Blake and the Taylor sisters revelling in the beauty of semantic ambiguity, or the authors of nonsense verse jettisoning sense to thrill their readers with the sheer music of poetry. Alive to the ways in which recent debates both echo and repudiate those conducted in earlier periods, The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry investigates the stylistic and formal means through which children's poetry, in theory and in practice, negotiates the complicated demands we have made of it through the ages."--Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Children's poetry, English -- History and criticism
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Aesthetics in literature.
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Aesthetics in literature
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Children's poetry, English
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Joy, Louise
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| ISBN |
9781317045540 |
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1317045548 |
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