English Childhood: Wordsworth's Treatment of Childhood in the Light of 18th Century English Poetry 1922 Adolph Charles Babenroth SIGNED

Title: English Childhood: Wordsworth's Treatment of Childhood in the Light of English Poetry from Prior to Crabbe

Author: A. [Adolph] Charles Babenroth, Ph. D.

Description: Inscribed by author on front free endpaper. First edition. Publisher's gilt stamped green cloth with medallion on front cover. Spine ends show wear; corners pushed. Index. vii, 401 pages.

A study of William Wordsworth's body of poetry on childhood in a time of changing values, in a perspective against the background of 18th century poetry, including the work of William Blake, Robert Burns, William Cowper, Michael Bruce, George Crabbe, Alexander Pope, Robert Southey, James Thomson and John Langhorne among others.

Adolph Charles Babenroth (1883-1928), after earning his A.M. at Harvard in 1906, taught English at Syracuse University until 1919, when he became Professor of English at Columbia University. The professor died in 1928 following an appendectomy.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Place: New York
Year: 1922

Keywords: William Wordsworth, William Blake, Robert Burns, William Cowper, Michael Bruce, George Crabbe, Alexander Pope, John Langhorne, Robert Southey, James Thomson, children's books, English poetry, 18th century poetry, literary criticism, comparative literature,