How Long to Read The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry

How Long Does it Take to Read The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 2 minutes to read The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry by Katherine Wakely-Mulroney

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This collection gives sustained attention to the literary dimensions of children’s poetry from the eighteenth century to the present. While reasserting the importance of well-known voices, such as those of Isaac Watts, William Blake, Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti, A. A. Milne, and Carol Ann Duffy, the contributors also reflect on the aesthetic significance of landmark works by less frequently celebrated figures such as Richard Johnson, Ann and Jane Taylor, Cecil Frances Alexander and Michael Rosen. Scholarly treatment of children’s poetry has tended to focus on its publication history rather than to explore what comprises – and why we delight in – its idiosyncratic pleasures. And yet arguments about how and why poetic language might appeal to the child are embroiled in the history of children’s poetry, whether in Isaac Watts emphasising the didactic efficacy of “like sounds,” William Blake and the Taylor sisters revelling in the beauty of semantic ambiguity, or the authors of nonsense verse jettisoning sense to thrill their readers with the sheer music of poetry. Alive to the ways in which recent debates both echo and repudiate those conducted in earlier periods, The Aesthetics of Children’s Poetry investigates the stylistic and formal means through which children’s poetry, in theory and in practice, negotiates the complicated demands we have made of it through the ages.

How long is The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry?

The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry by Katherine Wakely-Mulroney is 421 pages long, and a total of 105,671 words.

This makes it 142% the length of the average book. It also has 129% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 37 minutes to read The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry aloud.

What Reading Level is The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry?

The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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