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Christina Rossetti's Sing-Song and Nineteenth-Century Children's Poetry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Barbara Garlitz
Barbara Garlitz*
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Radcliffe College
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PMLA , Volume 70 , Issue 3 , June 1955 , pp. 539 - 543
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1955

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References

1 A Nursery Rhyme Book, with 120 Illustrations by Arthur Hughes (London, 1872), reprinted in 1893 with the addition of S poems.

2 Although 3 of these anthologies are American publications, most of the authors represented are English. They are similar in every respect.

3 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, His Family Letters, with a memoir by William M. Rossetti (London, 1895), i, 61.

4 “The Little Scarecrow,” Capern, Little Lays for Little Folk.

5 “The Father's Knee,” James Ballantyne, Chimes for Childhood.

6 “The Linnet's Nest,” Original Poems.

7 “Lullaby,” Mary Forrest, Chimes for Childhood.

8 E. W. Thomas, Christina Georgina Rossetti (Columbia, 1931), p. 181; Dorothy M. Stuart, Christina Rossetti (London, 1930), p. 86.

9 “The Scramble for Sugar Plums,” Amelia Edwards, The Horn of Plenty.

10 Thomas, p. 182; Ross Douglas Waller, The Rossetti Family, 1824–1854 (Manchester, 1932), p. 239.

11 Dora Greenwell, The Horn of Plenty.

12 Scribner's Monthly, iii (1872), 629.

13 Both in Children with the Poets.

14 The title of a moral novel by Mary Howitt.

15 “Nimble Dick,” Original Poems.