Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages

The "New York Times Magazine" called Bloom "a colossus among critics . . . his enthusiasm for literature is a joyous intoxicant." In this enchanting anthology, Bloom brings his love of literature to the younger generation as he presents favorite poems and stories by well-known children's writers, and introduces works by authors better known for their adult classics.

Harold Bloom (1930–2019) was Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. He wrote more than sixty books, including Cleopatra: I Am Fire and Air, Falstaff: Give Me Life, The Western Canon, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, and How to Read and Why. He was a MacArthur Prize fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of many awards, including the Academy’s Gold Medal for Criticism.

Contents Introduction Book I....Spring The Human Seasons John Keats The Song of the Four Winds Thomas Love Peacock The Wind and The Rain William Shakespeare The Ass Eating Thistles Aesop A Crazy Tale Gilbert Keith Chesterton How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin Rudyard Kipling The Message of the March Wind William Morris A Musical Instrument Elizabeth Barrett Browning Little Birds of the Night Stephen Crane There Was A Child Went Forth Walt Whitman Reflections Lafcadio Hearn The Owl and The Pussy-Cat Edward Lear Old May Song Anonymous "Home No More Home To Me" Robert Louis Stevenson The Fairies William Allingham Green Grass Anonymous "Beautiful Soup, So Rich and Green" Lewis Carroll "Gay Go Up, and Gay Go Down" Anonymous "Here We Come A Piping" Anonymous "Hey Nonny No!" Anonymous "I Had A Little Nut-Tree" Anonymous The Lincolnshire Poacher Anonymous Complements Emile Zola Book II....Summer The King of the Golden River John Ruskin The Jumblies Edward Lear A Runnable Stag John Davidson A Pig-Tale Lewis Carroll The Elephant's Child Rudyard Kipling The Bottle Imp Robert Louis Stevenson "I Saw A Peacock With A Fiery Tail" Anonymous "In Winter, When The Fields Are White" Lewis Carroll "Echo's Lament For Narcissus" Ben Jonson The Way Through The Woods Rudyard Kipling The Remarkable Rocket Oscar Wilde Journalism In Tennessee Mark Twain Roaring Mad Tom Anonymous The Mad Gardener's Song Lewis Carroll The War-Song of Dinas Vawr thomas Love Peacock "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" Rudyard Kipling Uncle David's Nonsensical Story About Giants and Fairies Catherine Sinclair The Fox and The Hedgehog Aesop The Goose-Girl Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde Mary De Morgan August algernon Charles Swinburne The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo Edward Lear The Crow and The Pitcher Aesop The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky Stephen Crane Humpty Dumpty Lewis Carroll Book III....Autumn The Stag Looking Into The Water Aesop The Mock Turtle's Story Lewis Carroll The Floating Old Man Edward Lear The Wood So Wild Anonymous The Problem of Thor Bridge Arthur Conan Doyle Wakefield Nathaniel Hawthorne The Spring Lover and The Autumn Lover Lafcadio Hearn Goblin Market Christina Rossetti The Three Strangers Thomas Hardy How Much Land Does a Man Need? Leo Tolstoy Ali The Persian's Story of the Kurd Sharper The Arabian Nights A Leave-Taking Algernon Charles Swinburne The Unquiet Grave Anonymous Autumn John Clare "This is The Key of the Kingdom" Anonymous The Dong With A Luminous Nose Edward Lear "Weep You No More, Sad Fountains" Anonymous "Will You Walk A Little Faster?" Lewis Carroll The Two Pots Aesop Feathertop Nathaniel Hawthorne The Recessional Saki "I Loved A Lass" George Wither "The Splendour Falls On Castle Walls" Alfred, Lord Tennyson "So, We'll Go No More A-Roving" George Gordon, Lord Byron The Dalliance of the Eagles Walt Whitman November Robert Bridges Drinking Song John Still Love Will Find Out The Way Anonymous My Cat Jeoffrey Christopher Smart The White island Robert Herrick Death and Cupid Aesop "Who Has Seen The Wind?" Christina Rossetti Book IV....Winter The Red Shoes Hans Christian Andersen The Signal-Man Charles Dickens A Merry Note William Shakespeare "Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind" William Shakespeare The Lion of Winter William Shakespeare Dirge in Woods Feorge Meredith A Wintry Sonnet Christina Rossetti Song Christina Rossetti The Silver Swan Orlando Gibbons Nightmare William Schwenk Gilbert Witches' Loaves O. Henry The Horla Guy De Maupassant Sir Patrick Spence Anonymous A Helen of Kirconnell Anonymous "I Know a Little Garden-Close" William Morris Night William Blake Snow-Flakes Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Snowstorm John Clare The Snowstorm Ralph Waldo Emerson London Snow Robert Bridges Bits of Straw John Clare The Bell-Tower Herman Melville In The Dark E. Nesbit The Hag Robert Herrick A Spell John Dryden The Old Ghost Thomas Lovell Beddoes Sorrow Aubrey De Vere Luke Havergal Edwin Arlington Robinson Dirge Thomas Lovell Beddoes The Two Spirits Percy Bysshe Shelley The Phantom-Wooer Thomas Lovell Beddoes The Portent Herman Melville William Wilson Edgar Allan Poe The Queen of Spades Alexander Pushkin All Souls' Edith Wharton The Carrion Crow Thomas Lovell Beddoes Badger John Clare The Eagle Alfred, Lord Tennyson Mariana Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Kraken Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes H. G. Wells The Nose Nikolai Gogol The Song of Triumphant Love Ivan Turgenev The Walrus and The Carpenter Lewis Carroll A Noiseless Patient Spider Walt Whitman Up-Hill Christina Rossetti Author Index Title Index Copyright &#; By Harold Bloom, LLC