Author: Ewart, Gavin (Editor):
Title: The Batsford Book of Light Verse For Children.
Description: London, B. T. Batsford, 1978. 1st Ed., H/B orange cloth bds, Near Fine, unclipped VG++ d/w, v. light edgewear at top edge/corner, contents fine with lovely bright b/w illustrations by Nicolas Bentley. With contributions from some of the great English poets, amongst them Jonson, Herrick, Cowper, Shakespeare, Hood, and Beaumont and Fletcher this book of verse is often humorous, lyrical or nonsensical, but never solemn or sad.

Keywords: poems, verse, lyric, Nicolas Bentley, Robert Graves, Ted Hughes, Hilaire Belloc, Roy Fuller, Noel Coward, Phyllis McGinley, A. A. Milne, Shakespeare, Hood, humour, nonsense, Jonson, Herrick, Cowper.