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POETRY

THE CANON?? of children’s poetry:

 

Harry

Behn

1898 - 1973

Stephen Vincent

Benet

1898 - 1943

William

Blake

1757 - 1827

Robert

Browning

1812 - 1889

Lewis

Carroll

1832 - 1898

John

Ciardi

1916 - 1986

Elizabeth

Coatsworth

1893 - 1986

e. e.

cummings

1894 - 1962

Walter

De la Mare

1873 - 1956

Emily

Dickinson

1830 - 1886

T. S.

Eliot

1883 - 1965

Eleanor

Farjeon

1881 - 1965

Rachel

Field

1894 - 1942

Eugene

Field

1850 - 1895

Robert

Frost

1874 - 1963

Kate

Greenaway

1846 - 1901

Langston

Hughes

1902 - 1967

John

Keats

1795 - 1821

Joyce

Kilmer

1886-  1918

Rudyard

Kipling

1865 - 1936

Edward

Lear

1812 - 1888

Henry Wadsworth

Longfellow

1807 - 1882

Eve

Merriam

1916 - 1992

Edna St. Vincent

Millay

1892 - 1950

A. A.

Milne

1882 - 1956

 

Mother Goose

 

Ogden

Nash

1902 - 1971

Edgar Allan

Poe

1809 - 1849

James Whitcomb

Riley

1849 - 1916

Christina

Rosetti

1830 - 1894

Carl

Sandburg

1878 - 1967

William

Shakespeare

1564 - 1616

Robert Louis

Stevenson

1850 - 1894

Walt

Whitman

1819 - 1892

William Butler

Yeats

1865 - 1939