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The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry: A Study of Children's Verse in English book cover

1st Edition

The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry A Study of Children's Verse in English

Edited By Katherine Wakely-Mulroney, Louise Joy Copyright 2018
276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

PART I INTRODUCTION





1 Introduction



Katherine Wakely-Mulroney and Louise Joy





　



PART II FORM





2 Rhythm



Derek Attridge





3 Free Play Revisited: the Poetics of Repetition in Blake’s Songs of Innocence



Corinna Russell





4 Play



James Williams





5 Poetry in Prose: Lewis Carroll’s Sylvie and Bruno Books



Katherine Wakely-Mulroney





6 The Rational Gothic: The Case of Ann Taylor’s "The Hand-Post"



Donelle Ruwe





　



PART III EMBODIMENT





7 The Laughing Child: Children’s Poetry and the Comic Mode



Louise Joy





8 "We may not know, we cannot tell": Religion and Reserve in Victorian Children’s Poetics



Kirstie Blair





9 Nursery Rhymes: Poetry, Language, and the Body



Debbie Pullinger





10 "That Terrible Bugaboo": The Role of Music in Poetry for Children



Michael Heyman





11 Cognitive Poetics and The Aesthetics of Children’s Poetry: A Primer of Possibilities



Karen Coats





12 Inner Animals: Nature in Ted Hughes’s Poems for Children



David Whitley





　



PART IV TASTE





13 Children, Poetry, and the Eighteenth-Century School Anthology



Andrew O’Malley





14 Selection



Andrea Immel





15 Anthologies



Seth Lerer





　



Index

Biography

Katherine Wakely-Mulroney is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Louise Joy is a Fellow and College Lecturer in English at Homerton College, Cambridge, UK.

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