knotyouraveragejo wrote:And special thanks to you Larry for stepping in as BC in Kangaroo's absence! Off to the catalog we go...
would anyone care to elaborate on the summary?
It has been my pleasure.
Here is my attempt at the introduction:
This collection of poems, selected by Sara Teasdale, a talented poet in her own right, is made to appeal to children, both girls and boys. They are not poems
about children, but
for children. Neither does this mean that they are childish, but rather that they capture the imagination of children both in subject matter and the richness of the lyrical language of the poems themselves. They range through the great classical poets from Milton to Poe, in all of their variety and vigor. What child could not be captivated by Blake’s,
The Tiger, or enchanted by Lanier’s
Song of the Chattahoochee? Here in these verses, we all are children.