Peter Opie, Iona Opie
The Oxford Book of Children's Verse
Paperback
(Oxford University Press June 13, 2002)
This anthology brings together the outstanding verse written for children over a period of five hundred years.
It contains more than 300 poems written by 123 authors, and includes the rhymed precepts of medieval times, the admonitory verse of Elizabethan Puritans, the inspirational verse of Blake and Christopher Smart, the nonsense verses of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll, the nursery verses of Robert Louis Stevenson and A. A. Milne, and the poetical imaginings of Christina Rossetti, Eleanor Farjeon, and Walter de la Mare. It has truly been called "A companion to the mature of all ages, no matter how young."
It contains more than 300 poems written by 123 authors, and includes the rhymed precepts of medieval times, the admonitory verse of Elizabethan Puritans, the inspirational verse of Blake and Christopher Smart, the nonsense verses of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll, the nursery verses of Robert Louis Stevenson and A. A. Milne, and the poetical imaginings of Christina Rossetti, Eleanor Farjeon, and Walter de la Mare. It has truly been called "A companion to the mature of all ages, no matter how young."
- Series
- Oxford Books of Verse
- ISBN
- 0192801880 / 9780192801883
- Pages
- 446
- Weight
- 10.6 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.1 x 1.1 in.
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