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Childhood in literature and art, with some observations on literature for children : $b A study

Name: Childhood in literature and art, with some observations on literature for children : $b A study
Author: Scudder, Horace Elisha

Scudder, Horace Elisha

Children in art; Children in literature

Anthology, the Greek, 28-30.

  Antigone, 18.

  Apocryphal Gospels, the legends of the, 57-64.

  Art, American, as it relates to children, 237, 238.

  Art, modern, the foible of, 38.

  Arthur, in _King John_, 120.

  Ascanius, 31, 32.

  Askbert, 68, 69.

  Astyanax, 11;
    a miniature Hector, 14.

  _Atlantic Monthly, The_, cited, 34.

  Austin, Alfred, cited, 38.


  Ballads relating to children, 106-108;
    characteristics of, 113.

  Barbauld, Mrs., 173;
    her relation to the literature of childhood, 175;
    Coleridge and Lamb on, 174.

  Bathsheba’s child, 42.

  Beatrice, first seen by Dante, 77.

  _Better Land, The_, 222.

  Bible, the truth of the, not dependent on external witness, 6;
    the university to many in modern times, 41, 42.

  Blake, William, 163-165.

  Boccaccio, 79.

  Browning, Robert, as an interpreter of Greek life, 27;
    his _Pied Piper_, 237.

  Bryant, William Cullen, 217.

  Bunyan, childhood in, 129-133.

  Byzantine type of the Madonna, 83, 84.


  Catullus, 33.

  Chapman’s translation of Homer, quoted, 8, 9, 10, 16;
    the quality of his defects, 9, 10.

  Chaucer’s treatment of childhood, 108-111;
    compared with the Madonna in art, 113.

  Childhood, discovered at the close of the last century, 4;
    in literature as related to literature for children, 4;
    in Greek life, how attested, 7;
    indirect reference to it in Homer, 8-11;
    the direct reference, 11, 12;
    in the Greek tragedians, 16-21;
    in Plato, 22-26;
    in the Greek Anthology, 29, 30;
    in Virgil, 31, 32;
    conception of, in Roman literature, 32, 33;
    in Catullus, 33;
    in epitaphs, 33, 34;
    in Lucretius, 34;
    in Juvenal, 35;
    in classic conception of the supernatural, 34-36;
    in the myth of Amor, 36-38;
    in Old Testament literature, 42-46;
    in New Testament literature, 48, 49;
    attitude of the Saviour toward, 49;
    as a sign of history, 52;
    in the legends of the Apocryphal Gospels, 57-64;
    of saints, 65-71;
    under the forming power of Christianity, 73;
    in Dante, 75-78;
    in the representations of the Holy Family, 83-87;
    in the art of the northern peoples, 87-92;
    in the Madonnas of Raphael, 92-98;
    in Raphael’s Amor, 98, 99;
    in his representations of children generally, 100, 101;
    in the art of Luca della Robbia, 101, 102;
    its elemental force the same in all literatures, 105;
    in ballad literature, 106-108;
    in Chaucer, 108-111;
    its character in early English literature, 112, 113;
    in Spenser, 114, 115;
    in the lighter strains of Elizabethan literature, 116, 117;
    in Shakespeare, 117-126;
    its absence in Milton, 127, 128;
    how regarded in Puritanism, 128, 129;
    in Bunyan, 129-133;
    in Pope, 133, 134;
    in Fielding, 135;
    in Gray, 135-137;
    in Goldsmith, 137-140;
    in Cowper, 140, 141;
    in the art of Reynolds and Gainsborough, 141, 142;
    in Wordsworth, 144-157;
    in De Quincey, 158-162;

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Childhood in literature and art, with some observations on literature for children : $b A studyScudder, Horace Elisha

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Childhood in literature and art, with some observations on literature for children : $b A study

Scudder, Horace Elisha

Children in art; Children in literature

Anthology, the Greek, 28-30.

  Antigone, 18.

  Apocryphal Gospels, the legends of the, 57-64.

  Art, American, as it relates to children, 237, 238.

  Art, modern, the foible of, 38.

  Arthur, in _King John_, 120.

  Ascanius, 31, 32.

  Askbert, 68, 69.

  Astyanax, 11;
    a miniature Hector, 14.

  _Atlantic Monthly, The_, cited, 34.

  Austin, Alfred, cited, 38.


  Ballads relating to children, 106-108;
    characteristics of, 113.

  Barbauld, Mrs., 173;
    her relation to the literature of childhood, 175;
    Coleridge and Lamb on, 174.

  Bathsheba’s child, 42.

  Beatrice, first seen by Dante, 77.

  _Better Land, The_, 222.

  Bible, the truth of the, not dependent on external witness, 6;
    the university to many in modern times, 41, 42.

  Blake, William, 163-165.

  Boccaccio, 79.

  Browning, Robert, as an interpreter of Greek life, 27;
    his _Pied Piper_, 237.

  Bryant, William Cullen, 217.

  Bunyan, childhood in, 129-133.

  Byzantine type of the Madonna, 83, 84.


  Catullus, 33.

  Chapman’s translation of Homer, quoted, 8, 9, 10, 16;
    the quality of his defects, 9, 10.

  Chaucer’s treatment of childhood, 108-111;
    compared with the Madonna in art, 113.

  Childhood, discovered at the close of the last century, 4;
    in literature as related to literature for children, 4;
    in Greek life, how attested, 7;
    indirect reference to it in Homer, 8-11;
    the direct reference, 11, 12;
    in the Greek tragedians, 16-21;
    in Plato, 22-26;
    in the Greek Anthology, 29, 30;
    in Virgil, 31, 32;
    conception of, in Roman literature, 32, 33;
    in Catullus, 33;
    in epitaphs, 33, 34;
    in Lucretius, 34;
    in Juvenal, 35;
    in classic conception of the supernatural, 34-36;
    in the myth of Amor, 36-38;
    in Old Testament literature, 42-46;
    in New Testament literature, 48, 49;
    attitude of the Saviour toward, 49;
    as a sign of history, 52;
    in the legends of the Apocryphal Gospels, 57-64;
    of saints, 65-71;
    under the forming power of Christianity, 73;
    in Dante, 75-78;
    in the representations of the Holy Family, 83-87;
    in the art of the northern peoples, 87-92;
    in the Madonnas of Raphael, 92-98;
    in Raphael’s Amor, 98, 99;
    in his representations of children generally, 100, 101;
    in the art of Luca della Robbia, 101, 102;
    its elemental force the same in all literatures, 105;
    in ballad literature, 106-108;
    in Chaucer, 108-111;
    its character in early English literature, 112, 113;
    in Spenser, 114, 115;
    in the lighter strains of Elizabethan literature, 116, 117;
    in Shakespeare, 117-126;
    its absence in Milton, 127, 128;
    how regarded in Puritanism, 128, 129;
    in Bunyan, 129-133;
    in Pope, 133, 134;
    in Fielding, 135;
    in Gray, 135-137;
    in Goldsmith, 137-140;
    in Cowper, 140, 141;
    in the art of Reynolds and Gainsborough, 141, 142;
    in Wordsworth, 144-157;
    in De Quincey, 158-162;

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