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The Oxford book of children's verse

chosen and edited, with notes, by Iona and Peter Opie

(Oxford paperbacks)

Oxford University Press, 1994, c1973

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Includes indexes

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Description

This book brings together the most notable verse that has been written for children over the past five hundred years. Based on a fresh examination of the sources of children's literature, the book contains more than three hundred poems by well over a hundred named authors (a fifth of them American) arranged chronologically, from Chaucer and Lydgate to T. S. Eliot and Ogden Nash. The volume thus offers a conspectus of verse-writing for children in the English language; and the notes on the authors, at the end of the volume, which form almost a directory to those who have written the best verse for the young, deal in particular with the background to the poems given here. This book is intended for parents, lovers of poetry, children.

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  • NCID
    BA47331049
  • ISBN
    • 0192823493
  • LCCN
    94018386
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Oxford ; New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxxii, 407 p.
  • Size
    20 cm
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