English 2033E Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Frock, The Sea Voyage, Temagami
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Edward lear, the complete nonsense of edward lear. Carroll were the first to draw on this tradition and use it to create new, authored literature for children (later to be followed by dennis lee and dr. seuss). In that way, nonsense is a genre deeply rooted in entertainment. Although nonsense is rooted in the oldest tradition of children"s literature (nursery rhymes), it is also a rebellion against the conventions of children"s literature in the. Victorian period, when poems and stories for children tended to be excessively didactic and moralistic. To take a familiar example, the christmas carol once in royal david"s. City takes the christmas story (which is a great story for children, with the stable and animals, the manger, and so forth) and lays the moral on with a heavy hand: This hymn seems designed to teach children to think of jesus as an insufferable prig the focus is not on virtue so much as docility and obedience.
