One of my favorite pieces of children’s lit. is found here: a 1902 copy of Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses which contains poems such as “Bed in Summer,” “The Land of Counterpane,” and “Happy Thought.” Stevenson’s poems are from the point of view of a child, but they also have a sense of the “adult nostalgia for lost innocence and simplicity” (1840.) His work is absolutely wonderful and played an important role in children’s literature during the 19th century.
Damrosch, David, and Kevin Dettmar, eds. The Longman Anthology: British Literature. 3rd ed. Vol. 2B. New York: Pearson Education, Inc, 2006. 1840.
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