| Description |
1 online resource (xxix, 304 pages) |
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Cassell education |
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Cassell education.
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| Contents |
Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: From the 'garden' of childhood to real life on the street in 300 years of poetry for children; 1 Devotions and Didacticism: Religious verse for children; 2 Romantic Visions: The influence of Romanticism on children's verse; 3 'Sweet Flowers I Bring': Nineteenth-century nature poetry for children; 4 Old Mother Hubbard: And other nursery rhymes, old and new; 5 The Capacity to Amuse: The history of humour in poetry for children; 6 Jumblies and Jabberwockies: The nonsense verse of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear |
| Summary |
From John Bunyan's 'country rhimes' to rude chants about Manchester United, from Ted Hughes to Edward Lear, and from William Blake to the Taylor sisters, Morag Styles covers three hundred years of poetry with infectious enthusiasm and a keen critical eye. In this scholarly and fascinating book, she provides an informative account of the history of poetry written for children in Britain and America in the last three centuries. She analyses the major poets, genres and developments over this period, and traces the continuities between the past and the present. Styles asks fundamental questions wh |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Children's poetry, English -- History and criticism
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Children's poetry, American -- History and criticism
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Children -- Books and reading -- English-speaking countries
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Children -- Books and reading
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Children's poetry, American
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Children's poetry, English
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Jeugdliteratuur.
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Engels.
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English-speaking countries
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781847140579 |
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1847140572 |
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9786611783266 |
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6611783261 |
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1281783269 |
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9781281783264 |
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