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Children's poetry is one of the oldest art forms, rooted in early oral tradition, folk poetry, and nursery rhymes. Children have always enjoyed both works of poetry written for children and works of poetry intended for adults. In the West, as people's conception of childhood changed, children's poetry shifted from being a teaching tool to a ...
Title page for an 1801 edition of Lessons for Children, part I Lessons for Children is a series of four age-adapted reading primers written by the prominent 18th-century British poet and essayist Anna Laetitia Barbauld. Published in 1778 and 1779, the books initiated a revolution in children's literature in the Anglo-American world. For the first time, the needs of the child reader were ...
The Old Cumberland Beggar, a Description. The Thresher's Labour. To the South Downs. Categories: 18th-century works. Poems by century. 18th-century poetry.
Anna Laetitia Barbauld. William Battine. Peter Bayley (poet) Edward Baynard (physician) Benvenida Cohen Belmonte. Elizabeth Bentley (writer) John Berriman. Mary Matilda Betham. Margaret Bingham.
Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 O.S. [1] – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century. An exponent of Augustan literature, [2] Pope is best known for his satirical and discursive poetry including The Rape of the Lock, The ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (/ ˈ k oʊ l ə r ɪ dʒ / KOH-lə-rij; [1] 21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth.
This is a list of 18th-century British children's literature titles (ordered by year of publication): A Little Book for Little Children (1702) by Thomas White. A Token for Children (1709) by James Janeway. Divine Songs (1715) by Isaac Watts. A Description of Three Hundred Animals (1730) by Thomas Boreman.
William Cowper (/ ˈ k uː p ər / KOO-pər; 15 November 1731 [2] / 26 November 1731 – 14 April 1800 [2] / 25 April 1800 ()) was an English poet and Anglican hymnwriter.. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th-century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside.