Author: ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA & ARTHUR HUGHES
Title: Sing-Song
Description: Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms, Inc, 1966. Hardcover. Illustrated by Arthur Hughes. Monochrome; 8.40 X 6.20 X 0.80 inches; 130 pages; Hard cover is wheat colored cloth with a blue box, gold lettering in box, on front and spine. V. Slight rubbing. Pages are clean and tight, appears as if unused. Illustrated with a 120 blue monochrome picture for each poem. A copy of the original 1872 edition published by Routledge, London. This book of nursery rhymes contains many poems which are now accepted classics. "Sing-Song begins and ends with the sleeping child in bed. In the interval Rossetti guides the reader through three different, but simultaneous, temporal sequences. Taken together, these three synchronic movements divide into three successive phases, each slightly more comprehensive than the last. Grouping her 121 lyrics within roughly twelve decades, Rossetti uses clock and calendar to posit progress within circularity".. Near Fine .

Keywords: Poetry; Literature; Juvenile Literature; Juvenile Poetry; Nursery Rhymes; Women Authors; Child Rearing; Morals; Fables; Literature/Poetry/Classics Juvenile Women/Womens' History Cultural History Education English/British History Fairy Tales/Folk Lore Refe