Original Poems for Infant Minds

work by Ann and Jane Taylor

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In children’s literature: From T.W. to Alice (1712?–1865)
…century was not Blake but Original Poems for Infant Minds (1804), by “Several Young Persons,” including Ann and Jane Taylor. The Taylor sisters, though adequately moral, struck a new note of sweetness, of humour, at any rate of nonpriggishness. Their “Twinkle, twinkle, little star,” included in Rhymes for the Nursery…
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