Good, godly books - religious literature; an urge to delight - nursery verse and lullabies; the capacity to amuse - humorous poems; invisible women - obscure female poets; from the best poets? - the role of anthologists; marigold garden - poetry of the countryside; songs and stories - music, magic and adventure; the street and other landmarks - contemporary and other urban poetry for children.
Morag Styles is Reader in Children's Literature and Education at the University of Cambridge, UK, where she is Fellow of Homerton College.
"A necessary addition to the scant existing scholarship on the history of poetry for children....Her enthusiasm for poetry across the centuries is contagious, and both the poets and poems she examines will provide other serious scholars of children's poetry a starting place for continued study of their own."--Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Winter 2000
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