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The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry - A Study of Children's Verse in English (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,457
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The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry - A Study of Children's Verse in English (Hardcover): Katherine Wakely-Mulroney,...

The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry - A Study of Children's Verse in English (Hardcover)

Katherine Wakely-Mulroney, Louise Joy

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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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
Release date: November 2017
First published: 2018
Editors: Katherine Wakely-Mulroney • Louise Joy
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 978-1-4724-3831-7
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Children's literature studies
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General
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LSN: 1-4724-3831-0
Barcode: 9781472438317

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