A Child's Garden of Verses / A Potpourri of Poetry: An Introduction to Great Poets

by Robert Louis Stevenson, Flo Gibson (Narrator)

Stevenson captures the spirit of childhood in such charming poems as "At the Seaside", "Foreign Lands", "Bed In Summer", "The Land of Counterpane" and many more. Also included is a potpourri of twenty-nine established favorites such as "Daffodils", "To a Mouse", "The Pied Piper of Hamlin", "Paul Revere's Ride", "The Highwayman" and "Twas the Night Before Christmas". Two 60-minute cassettes. Winner of the Parents' Choice Award.

Audio Cassette

Published January 1, 1983

About the author

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov.

Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the Western canon.