DR. ISAAC WATT WILLIAM BLAKE ANNE AND JANE TAYLOR EDWARD LEAR CHRISTINA ROSSETTI CELIA LAIGHTON THAXTER

2. • “Divine and Moral Songs For
Children” 1715
• Cradle Hymn – one of the best poets
*before there was very little genuine
poetry ever published

3. • first important English poets to write
poetry for children
• “Song of Innocence”
• “Cradle Song”
• “The Lamb”
• “Spring”

4. • Began to write for children scarcely
more than children themselves
• they wrote about flowers, birds, sun,
moon, stars, the season, fields and
garden
• “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”
• “I like little Pussy”
• “Pretty Cow”

5. • has the ability to entertain all ages at
once
• works are entertaining for young and
adult
• “Book of Nonsense”
• “Nonsense Songs”

6. • Wrote very simple little poems for
children
• She was a greed master of musical
language and metrical arts
• “Sing Song”
• a collection of little nursery
poems

7. • Especially noted for her many beautiful and truthful
pictures of birds and their ways in “Stories and Poems”
• “ The Sandpiper”
• “ Wild Geese”
• “ The Sparrows”