Time for Poetry

Provides inadvertent documentation of the sexism, and deception, involved in "teaching" small susceptible children. The author does acknowledge the fact that most children "hate poetry". The selection is one reason why. Largely drivel over pointless events that are not real in a child's life.

I just do not think a child is so young that "widdy-widdy-wurkey/ Is the name of my turkey" [11] is worth memorizing.

Of the best, of course, nothing beats a clever child's verse:

Old Quin Queeribus--
He loved his garden so,
He would n't have a rake around,
A shovel or a hoe.

For each potato's eyes he bought
Fine spectacles of gold,
and mufflers for the corn, to keep
Its ears from getting cold. [262] Zodiac Town, Nancy Turner

And there is plenty of Lewis show more Carroll, Blake, Mother Goose, Conkling, De la Mare, Dickinson, Farjeon, TS Eliot, Frost, Milne, Lear, Rossetti, Sandburg, Stevenson, Turner, Wynne, and some Shakespeare and Yeats. With Indices of Authors and First Lines. show less

This book consists of famous poems from the early 20th century. Mary Arbuthnot acquired many great poems and compiled them into this anthology. Children can read familiar poems in this book such as those by Mother Goose and T.S. Elliot.