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Oxf Book Child Verse America C
Hardcover
Series: Oxford Books of Verse
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ISBN10: 0195035399
ISBN13: 9780195035391
Publisher: Academic
Published: Apr 25 1985
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.29
Height: 1.31 Width: 5.84 Depth: 8.73
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780195035391
Publisher: Academic
Published: Apr 25 1985
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.29
Height: 1.31 Width: 5.84 Depth: 8.73
Language: English
In the tradition of Iona and Peter Opie's Oxford Book of Children's Verse comes this anthology by the award-winning poet and children's book author Donald Hall. Bringing together poems written for children and also poems written for anybody which children have enjoyed, the book includes anonymous works, ballads, and recitation pieces, beginning with the Calvinist verses of the seventeenth century.
Hall has collected poems from Sunday School magazines, Christmas annuals for children, and children's periodicals such as St. Nicholas and Youth's Companion. Many marvelous writers, some no longer remembered, wrote almost every month for these nineteenth and twentieth century publications. In addition to the expected names of Longfellow and Whittier, we find Sarah Josepha Hale (Mary Had a Little Lamb), Mary Mapes Dodge (creator of Hans Brinker), and Palmer Cox (with his marvelous Brownies). Twentieth century authors abound: Ogden Nash, T.S. Eliot, John Updike, Theodore Roethke, to name just a few. The book concludes with the fabulous nonsense of present-day writers like Shel Silverstein and Nancy Willard. About the Editor: Donald Hall's many books include The Oxford Book of American Literary Anecdotes, Kicking the Leaves, and Ox-Cart Man, which won the Caldecott Medal for children's literature.
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