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Literature1621-1932  \nA collection of 117 titlesreprinted in photo-facsimilein 73 volumes  \nSelected and arranged byAlison Lurie  \nand  \nJustin G.Schiller  \n# Songs of Childhood\n\nby Walter Ramal[Walter de la Mare]  \nwith a prefacefor the Garland edition by  \nAnthony Hecht  \nGarland Publishing,Inc.,New York &London  \n1976  \nG172994  \nEDUC-PSYCH  \nBibliographical note:  \nThis facsimile has been madefrom a copy in the  \nBeinecke Library of Yale University.(Iq.D373.902)  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data  \nDe Ia Mare,Walter John,1873-1956.Songs of childhood.  \n(Classics of children's literature,1621-1932)  \nReprint of the 1902 ed.published by Longmans,GreeLondon,New York.  \n\"Walter de la Mare(1873-1956),bibliography of hisbooks for children\":p.  \nSUMMARY:A collection of forty-seven poems aboutsubjects and experiences familiar to children.  \n[1.English poetry]I.Title.II.Series.[PR6007.E3S61976]821.9'12    75-32200ISBN 0-8240-2310-2  \n6007e341976ED-P  \n# Preface\n\nThe Romantic poets rediscovered a pastoraland Biblical dream:that a child was the mostinnocent and the wisest of us all.Wordsworthhailed him as \"Mighty Prophet!Seer blest!\"And in the next generation Victorian noveliststook that dream seriously enough to makechildren the heroes and heroines of their mostsearching fictions.There had been no\"children's literature\"to speak of before,exceptfor the oral and \"popular\"tradition,includinglullabies and Mother Goose,some of which goback as far as Tudor and even medieval times.  \nChildren's literature today is an immense andcomplex domain;and leaving aside for thepresent the works composed by childrenthemselves,what remains varies tremendouslyin skill and delight,as well as in subtlety andintention.SoIshall also set aside those minimal\"vocabulary-building\"tales and verses whosesmall virtues are rarely more than therapeutic,and direct myself only to that specialized but  \n185'7  \n# PREFACE\n\nmost important category—poems written by askilled and adult poet but addressed to anaudience of children who are likely to be read tountil they are skillful enough to read the sameverses for themselves.  \nThe dangers for the poet in addressing socomposite an audience are enormous:cuteness,coyness,archness and condescension are onlythe most obvious ones.Some great writers ofchildren's verse—Lewis Carroll and EdwardLear—have successfully hedged themselvesagainst these dangers by insistent comedy andparody(Carroll's \"serious\"children's verse ismaudlin and embarrassing).By this means theyhave contrived what the child will take aslovely,unintimidating,mysterious,rationalnonsense,and what the adult will recognize as atravesty or burlesque of something very edgyindeed.Thus,Lear's \"The Dong with theLuminous Nose\"and Carroll's \"Jabberwocky\"are,respectively,bright and disguised versionsof gothic terror and misery on the one hand,and medieval knightly exploit on the other,both rendered innocuous for the nursery andridiculous for the adult.The risks of seriousnesshave been successfully avoided.","cbCaiawyB8M352ZW","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiawyB8M352ZW","pdf",2291339,136,"English","# Songs of Childhood\n## Preface","[{\"question\":\"What does the collection “Songs of Childhood” focus on?\",\"answer\":\"It is a collection of forty-seven poems about subjects and experiences familiar to children.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the preface describe the Romantic and Victorian view of children?\",\"answer\":\"It says Romantic poets rediscovered a pastoral and Biblical dream of the child as the most innocent and wisest, and Victorian novelists took that dream seriously enough to make children the heroes and heroines of searching fiction.\"},{\"question\":\"What kind of poems does the preface say it will primarily address?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses on poems written by skilled adult poets but addressed to a child audience that will likely read them until they become skillful 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