A collection of verses about the sea from Byron, Shakespeare, Whitman, Yeats, and other British and American writers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century.
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From School Library Journal
Grade 4 Up-- Similar in format to Daniel's A Child's Treasury of Poems (1986) and A Child's Christmas Treasury (1988, both Dial), this volume features classic poems about the sea and paintings and engravings by Edwardian and Victorian artists. The 75 selections include some written specifically for children by Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Christina Rossetti, and Robert Louis Stevenson, as well as those by such poets as Dickinson, Housman, Masefield, Scott, and Wordsworth. The artists, with the exception of J. M. W. Turner, are not well-known in this country. As with the previous books, verse and art are framed in interesting ways, with poems sometimes set into the open space of the oil paintings and sometimes enclosed with engravings on single pages. This title seems more nostalgic than the others; some of the text and images are quite sentimental by modern standards and may not provide much satisfaction for children. In spite of this, the eternal fascination with the ocean is captured herein, and the book will appeal to those who love the sea. --Barbara Chatton, College of Education, University of Wyoming, Laramie
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
In the manner of this anthologist's A Child's Treasury of Animal Verse (1989), etc., here are more than 70 poems--mostly from well-known 19th-century British poets--handsomely illustrated with contemporary paintings, engravings, and silhouettes. The poetry, much of it familiar, is of generally high quality (the mixture of Empire and the Victorian view of childhood provides a rich lode), though there are some unabashedly overblown passages (``Dimpled feet swift treading/The huge billow's track,/Rosy fingers flinging/Merry kisses back''). The artists are mostly less familiar, ranging from a real Turner and the Turneresque to romantic landscapes and some precursors of Norman Rockwell. The unusually attractive format and accessible inclusions like ``The Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens'' and bits of Carroll and Lear may lure unsuspecting readers into the pleasures of more demanding fare--Tennyson, Wordsworth, Shakespeare. Brief sketches of the 33 poets; list of the painters; index of first lines. (Poetry. 6+) -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Makes you feel like you're at the seaside,
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I used to read these poems to my son when he was young. It was always a summertime favorite of his. We both loved the victorian-era paintings of seascapes that illustrate the poetry.
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