By Karen L Kilcup,Angela Sorby
Over the River and during the Wood is the 1st and merely number of its style, supplying readers an unequaled view of the standard and variety of nineteenth-century American kid's poetry. such a lot American poets wrote for children—from well-known names reminiscent of Ralph Waldo Emerson to much less usual figures like Christina Moody, an African American writer who released her first booklet at 16. In its excellence, relevance, and abundance, a lot of this paintings opponents or surpasses poetry written for adults, but it has languished—inaccessible and unread—in outdated periodicals, reward books, and primers. This groundbreaking anthology treatments that loss, offering fabric that's either serious to the culture of yankee poetry and in addition a pride to read.
Complemented via interval illustrations, this definitive assortment comprises paintings via poets from all nation-states, in addition to infrequently obvious poems via immigrant and ethnic writers and by means of childrens themselves. Karen L. Kilcup and Angela Sorby have combed the data to offer an in depth choice of rediscoveries besides conventional favorites. via turns playful, contemplative, funny, and subversive, those poems entice glossy sensibilities whereas giving students a revised photograph of the nineteenth-century literary landscape.
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