An Inheritance of Poetry

by Gladys L. Adshead, Annis Duff, Nora S. Unwin (Illustrator)

Sonnets, ballads, hero poems, rhymes, and spiritual verses are included in this collection of poetry from many sources. Grades 6-9.

Genres: Poetry

424 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1948

About the author

Gladys Lucy Adshead (1896-1985) was a British-born writer of children's books.

Adshead was born in Manchester, England, to James Frederick and Bertha Wilson Groome Adshead. She was educated at Froebel Educational Institute, a teacher training college. She became a teacher and headmistress in private schools in England, where she was a member of the Royal Society of Teachers, and later in Maryland, Massachusetts, and Illinois in the United States.

Gladys Adshead was best known for her "Brownie" books, the first of which was published in 1938 by Oxford University Press and entitled Brownies - Hush!. She died in Santa Rosa, California in 1985.

(source: Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Anne White · Rating 5 out of 5]

We used this many times in our homeschool. But the author's name here is wrong: it should be Gladys L. Adshead. Is there any way to change that?

[Cheryl]

Unfortunately my library copy has cat hair in it, and I'm allergic. Please, borrowers, be considerate to future patrons! But I did page through it, as I like Nora S. Unwin's artwork, and I was curious what all was in this fat dense children's (family?) book. Well. Lots of folk songs, mainly British and American. Didn't see any world/ multicultural poetry except for two by Langston Hughes (no crystal stair, and dreams). 'Miracle' by Walt Whitman, but mostly Shakespeare, the Bible, Walter de la Mare, pastorals, odes.