From the Garden to the Street

, by Styles, Morag

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ISBN: 9780304332243 | 0304332240
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 3/1/1997

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Preface

(2)

Acknowledgements

(4)

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

(29)

2 Romantic Visions The influence of Romanticism on children's verse

(34)

3 `Sweet Flowers I Bring' Nineteenth-century nature poetry for children

(18)

4 Old Mother Hubbard And other nursery rhymes, old and new

(24)

5 The Capacity to Amuse The history of humour in poetry for children

106

(28)

6 Jumblies and Jabberwockies The nonsense verse of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear

134

(17)

7 `Of the Spontaneous Kind'? Christina Rossetti's Sing-Song and its precursors

151

(19)

8 `The Best of Plays' -- A Child's Garden of Verses The Poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson

170

(16)

9 `From the Best Poets'? How the canon of poetry for children is constructed

186

(11)

10 Song and Story Narrative and lyric verse for children

197

(26)

11 The Travellers Poetry for children in the first half of the twentieth century

223

(24)

12 `What is the Truth?' The poetry of Charles Causeley and Ted Hughes

247

(15)

13 The Street and Other Landmarks In defence of `urchin verse'

262

(20)

14 Epilogue Caribbean poetry in the late twentieth century

282

(13)

Index

295

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From the Garden to the Street

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