By Morag Styles
Strains the alterations and advancements in kid's poetry from the past due seventeenth century to the overdue twentieth century. The textual content makes connection with various genres inside poetry, altering structures of adolescence, the function of ladies in constructing kid's poetry and the impression of anthologists.
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It is worth lingering over this hymn, if only to see how childhood is being conceived in devotional verse by the mid-nineteenth century. All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all. Each little flower that opens, Each little bird that sings, He made their glowing colours, He made their tiny wings. Alexander draws the readers attention positively to the diminutive nature of certain of the creatures in God's kingdom (birds, flowers, 'tiny', 'little', 'small'), an 26 FROM THE G A R D E N TO THE STREET allusion perhaps to the vulnerability of children and the fact that small things and people can be 'wise and wonderful'.
188-215. E. V. Lucas, 'Some Notes on Poetry for Children', Fortnightly Review, Vol. LX, London, 1986. Neil Philip, The Signal Poetry Award, Signal, 47, May 1985, p. 76. Zachary Leader, Reading Blake's Songs, Routledge, London, 1981, p. 5. , p. 9. Lucy Aikin, Poetry for Children, London, 1801, beginning of Preface. Keith Thomas, 'Children in Early Modern England' in Children and their Books, eds Gillian Avery and Julia Briggs, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1989, p. 45. Philippe Aries, Centuries of Childhood, trans.
W. Siegal (eds), The Child and other Cultural Inventions, Houston Symposium 4, Praeger Publications, New York, 1983, pp. 188-215. E. V. Lucas, 'Some Notes on Poetry for Children', Fortnightly Review, Vol. LX, London, 1986. Neil Philip, The Signal Poetry Award, Signal, 47, May 1985, p. 76. Zachary Leader, Reading Blake's Songs, Routledge, London, 1981, p. 5. , p. 9. Lucy Aikin, Poetry for Children, London, 1801, beginning of Preface. Keith Thomas, 'Children in Early Modern England' in Children and their Books, eds Gillian Avery and Julia Briggs, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1989, p.