101 Poems about Childhood

by Michael Donaghy (Editor), Michael Donaghy (Editor), Various Poets (Author)

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2007
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Childhood, according to Rilke, was one of poetry's two inexhaustible sources. The poems in this anthology are an index of the idea of childhood, from nostalgia to expressions of love for children, from the celebration of births to the mourning of childhood death - childhood's psychology and persona, its pleasures and terrors, and the loss of innocence. This wonderfully evocative book draws from 400 years of poems: from Ben Jonson and Aphra Behn, through Blake, Clare, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Coleridge, and right up to the twentiety-century poems of Elizabeth Bishop, Sharon Olds and Paul Muldoon.

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Childhood, according to Rilke, was one of poetry's two inexhaustible sources. The poems in this anthology are an index of the idea of childhood, from nostalgia to expressions of love for children, from the celebration of births to the mourning of childhood death - childhood's psychology and persona, its pleasures and terrors, and the loss of innocence. This wonderfully evocative book draws from 400 years of poems: from Ben Jonson and Aphra Behn, through Blake, Clare, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Coleridge, and right up to the twentiety-century poems of Elizabeth Bishop, Sharon Olds and Paul Muldoon.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 07 Jun 2007
ISBN 10: 0571217850
ISBN 13: 9780571217854
Book Overview: 101 Poems about Childhood, edited by Michael Donaghy, is a wonderfully evocative poetry anthology, containing work from old favourites and exciting innovators alike, featuring Ben Jonson, Aphra Behn, Blake, Clare, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Coleridge, Elizabeth Bishop, Sharon Olds and Paul Muldoon, amongst many, many others.

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'One of the most original and effective themed collections I have come across.' Amanda Craig, The Times

Author Bio

Michael Donaghy was born in New York in 1954 and educated at Fordham University and the University of Chicago. He was Poetry Editor for Chicago Review for several years before moving to England in 1985. His first book, Shibboleth (1988), won the Whitbread Prize for Poetry; Conjure (2000) won the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection. His last poems are gathered in Safest (2005). He died in 2004.