Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Beliebte Reime und Kindermärchen
Für wen es gedacht ist
For readers who love folklore, old words and the history of childhood, and parents or teachers who want the roots of familiar rhymes.
Worum es in diesem Buch geht
Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales is a collection of the little verses and stories that English children had learned by ear for generations. It was put together by James Orchard Halliwell, who later added Phillipps to his name, and it appeared in 1849. He was a scholar of old English literature, and he built the book as a follow up to an earlier collection of nursery rhymes.
He did not want these verses to vanish. They had passed from nurse to child and from child to child, and few people wrote them down. The book gives you the rhymes sorted by use, with notes on where they came from and how they changed. Let us begin with the first key point, which is that these rhymes are far older than the nursery.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1These rhymes are older than childhood booksFree
- 2The rhymes are sorted by their use
- 3Customs, weather and belief hide inside the verses
- 4Read it aloud and notice the sound
Punkt 1 von 4
These rhymes are older than childhood books
Halliwell starts from a simple idea. Many verses that children chant are not made for children at all. They are scraps of older songs, charms, ballads and street cries that drifted into the nursery and stayed there.
He treats them as a kind of living antiquity. A rhyme can keep an old word, an old custom or an old joke long after the world around it has changed. A child who skips to a counting verse may be repeating something that adults once sang or spoke for quite different reasons.
This is why the book carries notes as well as verses. Halliwell compares versions from different counties and points to similar rhymes in other places and older writings. For the listener, the lesson is that a rhyme is a thing with a history. It has travelled, and it has been reshaped by many mouths on the way.
That’s 1 of 4 key points.
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Questions about Beliebte Reime und Kindermärchen
What is Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales about?
It is a collection of traditional English rhymes, riddles, game verses, lullabies and fireside tales, gathered from oral tradition. Halliwell groups them by use, so you can see what children did with each verse.
When was Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales written?
It was published in 1849. Halliwell prepared it as a sequel to his earlier collection of English nursery rhymes, and it widened the field to include games, riddles, sayings and tales.
Are the rhymes in the book really old?
Many are. Halliwell argues that numerous nursery verses are fragments of older songs, charms and ballads that drifted into the nursery and stayed there. Reading them aloud, you can hear old words and old jokes still alive in the rhymes.
Is Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales hard to read?
The verses are short and simple.
Who was J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps?
He was a nineteenth century English antiquarian and Shakespeare scholar. He collected folklore, early English writing and dialect terms, and he added the name Phillipps after inheriting connections through his marriage.