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The Oxford Book of Children's Verse (Oxford Books of Verse)

paperback – June 13, 2002
by Opie, Peter
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ISBN-13: 9780192801883 ISBN-10: 0192801880
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Binding
paperback
Published
June 13, 2002
Weight
0.7 lbs
Dimensions
19.60×2.80×13.00 cm

About this book

The Oxford Book of Children's Verse (Oxford Books of Verse) by Opie, Peter. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780192801883.

This anthology brings together the outstanding verse written for children over a period of five hundred years. It contains more than 300 poems written by 123 authors, and includes the rhymed precepts of medieval times, the admonitory verse of Elizabethan Puritans, the inspirational verse of Blake and Christopher Smart, the nonsense verses of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll, the nursery verses of Robert Louis Stevenson and A. A. Milne, and the poetical imaginings of Christina Rossetti, Eleanor Farjeon, and Walter de la Mare. It has truly been called "A companion to the mature of all ages, no matter how young."