The aesthetics of children's poetry : a study of children's verse in English - Walkey-Mulroney, Katherine (Abingdon, Oxon ; New York , NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018)
Introduction / Katherine Wakely-Mulroney and Louise Joy -- FORM. Rhythm / Derek Attridge -- Free Play Revisited: the Poetics of Repetition in Blake's Songs of Innocence / Corinna Russell -- Play / James Williams -- Poetry in Prose: Lewis Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno Books / Katherine Wakely-Mulroney -- The Rational Gothic: The Case of Ann Taylor's "The Hand-Post" / Donelle Ruwe -- EMBODIMENT. The Laughing Child: Children's Poetry and the Comic Mode / Louise Joy -- "We may not know, we cannot tell": Religion and Reserve in Victorian Children's Poetics / Kirstie Blair -- Nursery Rhymes: Poetry, Language, and the Body / Debbie Pullinger -- "That Terrible Bugaboo": The Role of Music in Poetry for Children / Michael Heyman -- Cognitive Poetics and The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry: A Primer of Possibilities / Karen Coats -- Inner Animals: Nature in Ted Hughes's Poems for Children / David Whitley -- TASTE. Children, Poetry, and the Eighteenth-Century School Anthology / Andrew O'Malley -- Selection / Andrea Immel -- Anthologies / Seth Lerer.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Keywords: Children's poetry, English -- History and criticism; Aesthetics in literature