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The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry - A Study of Children's Verse in English (Hardcover)
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The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry - A Study of Children's Verse in English (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
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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.
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