From the garden to the street : an introduction to 300 years of poetry for children
Record details
- ISBN: 9781281783264
- ISBN: 1281783269
- ISBN: 6611783261
- ISBN: 9786611783266
- ISBN: 9780304332229
- ISBN: 0304332240
- ISBN: 0304332224
- ISBN: 1847140572
- ISBN: 9781847140579
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxix, 304 pages).
remote - Publisher: London : Cassell, 1998.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Language Note: | English. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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