MODULE 4

Question 1

Christopher Smart

Answer 1

devotional verse
Continues trends set by watts and bunyan
affection for the natural world
hymns for the amusement of children
blends moral instruction with even more benign vision of childhood and God
Smart’s faith associated with tenderness for all creation
“Hymns for the Amusement of Children”

Question 2

Heinrich Hoffman / The English Strewelpeter

Answer 2

Takes the cautionary tale to the extreme and pushed disobedience and its punishments to the point of being almost ridiculous
Humorizing the tradition of moralizing stories for children, or a morbid collection of juvenile catastrophes
narrating voice is anarchic
complicity with the child rather than adult
Moves literature toward pleasure rather than instruction

Question 3

the Peacock ‘at home’ - Ann Dorset

Answer 3

move from children’s literature from being primarily about instruction to delight
Gently makes fun of issues of class precedence, social climbing
proceeded by colourful illustrations
Could be considered useful catalogue of information of species of birds/insects
switch towards innocent pleasures of childhood rather than religious

Question 4

Gilbert and Taylor

Answer 4

New emphasis on the pleasures of childhood
Delights of juvenile experience
Simple and musical rhymes without dwelling on moral
Domestic subjects
Original poems for infant minds
Rhymes for the Nursery

Question 5

Roscoe

Answer 5

“The Butterfly’s Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast”
Nursery rhymes
Moving into literature for pleasure
Useful catalogue of information - birds, similarly to Dorsett

Question 6

Lear

Answer 6

Moving into literature for pleasure
Limerick’s designed solely for humour - absurd situations, linguistic flair
Imaginary world - similarly to Roscoe
The Book of Nonsense

Question 7

Turner

Answer 7

Continuation of traditional devotional verse - similar to smart
The Daisy
Up beat rythme combined with relish for catastrophes that follow disobedience
Death of a child, but no mourning or weeping
Presented as logical conclusion for naughty behaviour

Question 8

3 strands of literature during 19th - 20th

Answer 8

Continuing devotional verse - smart and turner
New emphasis on the pleasures of childhood - Gilbert and Taylor
Celebration of imagination and anarchic elements of growing up - lear, Hoffman, Roscoe, Dorsett