Thursday's Child: Trends and Patterns in Contemporary Children's LiteratureBeschrijving van de ontwikkeling van het hedendaagse Engelstalige kinder- en jeugdboek, in de vorm van een schets van diverse genres, toonaangevende auteurs en afzonderlijke titels. |
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... poetry express something more fundamental than a poet's awakening to his muse - that childhood and poetry have a natural affinity for one another . Poets have played with language since the dawn of time , carefully choosing words for ...
... poetry express something more fundamental than a poet's awakening to his muse - that childhood and poetry have a natural affinity for one another . Poets have played with language since the dawn of time , carefully choosing words for ...
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... poetry . If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off , I know that is poetry . These are the only ways I know it . Is there any other way ? " 2 Randall Jarrell's chipmunk in The Bat - Poet ( 1964 ) brings the question ...
... poetry . If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off , I know that is poetry . These are the only ways I know it . Is there any other way ? " 2 Randall Jarrell's chipmunk in The Bat - Poet ( 1964 ) brings the question ...
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... poetry memorable and quotable . Ironically , the very freedom of form so vigorously sought has made poetry today more closed ; the experiments in style , typography , format , and illustration have fixed poetry to the page , so that its ...
... poetry memorable and quotable . Ironically , the very freedom of form so vigorously sought has made poetry today more closed ; the experiments in style , typography , format , and illustration have fixed poetry to the page , so that its ...
Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
Copyright | |
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