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Contents
Introduction | ix |
From Caxton to Comenius The Origins of Childrens Literature | 1 |
Childermass Sermons in Late Medieval England | 23 |
Childhood and Death A Reading of John Skeltons Phillip Sparrow | 39 |
The Topos of Childhood in Marian England | 55 |
John Foxes Book of Martyrs and the Child Reader | 73 |
Michael Draytons Nymphidia A Childrens Classic? | 88 |
A Childs Garden of Sprites English Renaissance Fairy Poetry | 97 |
The WaterPoet A Pioneer of Childrens Literature | 119 |
Nature Moralized John Bunyans Country Rhimes for Children | 136 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Children's Literature of the English Renaissance |
| Author | Warren W. Wooden |
| Editor | Jeanie Watson |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University Press of Kentucky, 1986 |
| ISBN | 0813115876, 9780813115870 |
| Length | 181 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / General |
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