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

Focusing on the literary, aesthetic, theoretical, and philosophical dimensions of children's poetry from the eighteenth century to the present, this collection encompasses central figures like Watts, Carroll, Rossetti, Milne, and Duffy, reasserting the literary significance of landmark but often marginalized authors from the past three centuries

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

Focusing on the literary, aesthetic, theoretical, and philosophical dimensions of children's poetry from the eighteenth century to the present, this collection encompasses central figures like Watts, Carroll, Rossetti, Milne, and Duffy, reasserting the literary significance of landmark but often marginalized authors from the past three centuries

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Joy Wakely-Mulroney
• Assisted by: Louise Joy (Editor), Katherine Wakely-Mulroney (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367880248
• ISBN: 978-0-367-88024-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism, Children's & teenage literature studies, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general