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From instruction to delight : an anthology of children's literature to 1850 / edited by Patricia Demers & Gordon Moyles.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1982.Description: xii, 310 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0195403843 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820/.8/09282 19
LOC classification:
  • PR1111.C52 F76 1982
Contents:
Books of courtesy and early lessons. From The colloquy / Aelfric -- The ABC of Aristotle ; From the Babees book / Anonymous -- The hornbook -- The battledor -- Milk for babes / John Cotton -- From The New England primer ; From Orbis sensualium pictus / Johan Amos Comenius. The 'hell-fire' tales of the Puritans. From A token for children / James Janeway -- From A book for boys and girls / John Bunyan. The lyrical instruction of Isaac Watts. From Divine songs ; From The moral songs / Isaac Watts. Chapbooks and penny histories. An elegy on the death and burial of Cock Robin -- The interesting story of the children in the wood -- From The life and death of Tom Thumb -- From The pleasant history of Thomas Hickathrift -- The trial of an ox, for killing a man -- From A new riddle book -- From The riddle book. John Newbery : instruction with delight. From A little pretty pocket-book ; From Nurse Truelove's New Year's gift ; From The history of Little Goody Two-shoes ; From The renouwned history of Mrs. Margery Two-shoes / John Newbery. Rational moralists. From The governess / Sarah Fielding -- From The history of Sandford and Merton / Thomas Day -- From Cobwebs to catch flies / Lady Eleanor Fenn -- From Original stories from real life / Mary Wollstonecraft -- The purple jar / Maria Edgeworth -- From The young emigrants / Catharine Parr Traill -- From The affectionate parent's gift / Henry Sharpe Horsley -- From Mary's grammar / Jane Marcet -- The reason why / Jacob Abbott -- Janetta and her Jujubes / Barbara Hopland -- From Make the best of it / Samuel Grisewold Goodrich -- From Merry's Museum / Samuel Grisewold Goodrich. Sunday school moralists. From Hymns in prose for children / Anna Laetitia Barbauld -- From Fabulous histories / Sarah Trimmer -- The shepherd of Salisbury-plain / Hannah More -- From The history of the Fairchild family / Mary Martha Sherwood -- From Flowers that never fade / Lucy Leman Rede -- From The wide, wide world / Susan Bogert Warner. Harbingers of the Golden Age. From Hymns for the ammusement of children / Christopher Smart -- My cat Jeoffry -- From Songs of innocence ; From Songs of experience / William Blake -- From Original poems for infant minds ; From Rhymes for the nursery / Ann Taylor Gilbert ; Jane Taylor -- From Rhymes for the nursery -- From The daisy / Elizabeth Turner -- The butterfly's ball and the grasshopper's feast / William Roscoe -- The peacock 'at home' / Catherine Ann Dorset -- From Poetry for children / Charles Lamb ; Mary Lamb -- From Peter Piper's practical principles of plain and perfect pronunciation -- From Sir hornbook / Thomas Love Peacock -- A visit from Saint Nicholas / Clement Clarke Moore -- From Poems for our children / Sarah Josepha Hale -- The story of the three bears / Eleanor Mure -- From Sketches of natural history / Mary Botham Howitt -- From Holiday House : a series of tales / Catherine Sinclair -- From New nursery songs for all good children / Eliza Lee Follen -- From The hope of the Katzekopfs : a fairy tale / Francis Edward Paget -- From The book of nonsense / Edward Lear -- The English struwwelpeter / Heinrich Hoffmann.
Summary: An anthology of poetry and prose read by and to children from the Middle Ages to the mid-nineteenth century, including familiar as well as little-known examples from each period.
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Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [302]-306.

An anthology of poetry and prose read by and to children from the Middle Ages to the mid-nineteenth century, including familiar as well as little-known examples from each period.

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Books of courtesy and early lessons. From The colloquy / Aelfric -- The ABC of Aristotle ; From the Babees book / Anonymous -- The hornbook -- The battledor -- Milk for babes / John Cotton -- From The New England primer ; From Orbis sensualium pictus / Johan Amos Comenius. The 'hell-fire' tales of the Puritans. From A token for children / James Janeway -- From A book for boys and girls / John Bunyan. The lyrical instruction of Isaac Watts. From Divine songs ; From The moral songs / Isaac Watts. Chapbooks and penny histories. An elegy on the death and burial of Cock Robin -- The interesting story of the children in the wood -- From The life and death of Tom Thumb -- From The pleasant history of Thomas Hickathrift -- The trial of an ox, for killing a man -- From A new riddle book -- From The riddle book. John Newbery : instruction with delight. From A little pretty pocket-book ; From Nurse Truelove's New Year's gift ; From The history of Little Goody Two-shoes ; From The renouwned history of Mrs. Margery Two-shoes / John Newbery. Rational moralists. From The governess / Sarah Fielding -- From The history of Sandford and Merton / Thomas Day -- From Cobwebs to catch flies / Lady Eleanor Fenn -- From Original stories from real life / Mary Wollstonecraft -- The purple jar / Maria Edgeworth -- From The young emigrants / Catharine Parr Traill -- From The affectionate parent's gift / Henry Sharpe Horsley -- From Mary's grammar / Jane Marcet -- The reason why / Jacob Abbott -- Janetta and her Jujubes / Barbara Hopland -- From Make the best of it / Samuel Grisewold Goodrich -- From Merry's Museum / Samuel Grisewold Goodrich. Sunday school moralists. From Hymns in prose for children / Anna Laetitia Barbauld -- From Fabulous histories / Sarah Trimmer -- The shepherd of Salisbury-plain / Hannah More -- From The history of the Fairchild family / Mary Martha Sherwood -- From Flowers that never fade / Lucy Leman Rede -- From The wide, wide world / Susan Bogert Warner. Harbingers of the Golden Age. From Hymns for the ammusement of children / Christopher Smart -- My cat Jeoffry -- From Songs of innocence ; From Songs of experience / William Blake -- From Original poems for infant minds ; From Rhymes for the nursery / Ann Taylor Gilbert ; Jane Taylor -- From Rhymes for the nursery -- From The daisy / Elizabeth Turner -- The butterfly's ball and the grasshopper's feast / William Roscoe -- The peacock 'at home' / Catherine Ann Dorset -- From Poetry for children / Charles Lamb ; Mary Lamb -- From Peter Piper's practical principles of plain and perfect pronunciation -- From Sir hornbook / Thomas Love Peacock -- A visit from Saint Nicholas / Clement Clarke Moore -- From Poems for our children / Sarah Josepha Hale -- The story of the three bears / Eleanor Mure -- From Sketches of natural history / Mary Botham Howitt -- From Holiday House : a series of tales / Catherine Sinclair -- From New nursery songs for all good children / Eliza Lee Follen -- From The hope of the Katzekopfs : a fairy tale / Francis Edward Paget -- From The book of nonsense / Edward Lear -- The English struwwelpeter / Heinrich Hoffmann.