International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature
16 Poetry for Children Morag Styles ‘Country Rhimes’ or ‘Fingle-fangles’: What is Poetry for Children? I am tempted to say that ...
children), includes much that was written before the twentieth century. Traditionalists do not have anything to worry about; chi ...
poems was once highly valued; now the oral performance of poetry might be a rap accompanied by a reggae backing or a tongue-twis ...
display’d/and on me made to dwell/’ Tis pity, such a pretty Maid/as I should go to Hell. Poetry for children, then, was mainly d ...
Some of her hymns, such as ‘Once in Royal David’s city’ and ‘All Things Bright and Beautiful’ have worldwide popularity. Her max ...
childhood (a similar view was taken up by Wordsworth and Coleridge in Lyrical Ballads (1798)), and although his enlightened idea ...
Certainly, many tried their hands at writing in the Taylors’ style. Elizabeth Turner (1775–1846) wrote The Daisy (1807) subtitle ...
On her broad disk. To live on pleasure’s painted wing, To feed on all the sweets of spring, Must be a mighty pleasant thing, If ...
children, Songs of Two Seasons (1891), Flowers Bring and Songs Sing (1893), has been forgotten. Her forte was nature poetry with ...
1852). Nonsense verse was already a thriving form in chapbook culture and there were talented humorists with verbal facility bef ...
January/Bitter very/February damp, Sir/March blows/On April’s nose/May has caught the cramp, Sir. The Fairies came out in 1883 a ...
And a bird flew up out of the turret, Above the Traveller’s head: And he smote upon the door again a second time; ‘Is there anyb ...
work has been collected in one volume, Complete Poems for Children (1973). No longer in vogue and mostly out of print are his ne ...
stylish and carefully crafted. Wendy Cope, a witty, best-selling poet for adults, revealed a playful voice for the very young in ...
All these poets have in their various ways ‘tuned into childhood’ with intimacy and honesty, reflecting, I think, a basic respec ...
ethnic minorities within most cultures, but there is still a long way to go before we reach a genuinely international outlook or ...
17 Drama Peter Hollindale ‘Children’s literature’ is a term which asks for subtle and flexible definitions, but as commonly used ...
Two of the greatest and most significant early works of dramatic literature for children incorporate their authors’ awareness of ...
Definitions The British Arts Council pamphlet of guidance on drama education, Drama in Schools (1992), defines drama as an educa ...
pageants, camp skits, or recreation department programs in which children act for other children’ (5), and in Britain its most i ...
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