Comments on: Darton’s Nursery Songs

By: Caroline Murray

Caroline Murray — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:52:35 +0000

Thanks for this: another member of the family, F. J. Harvey Darton (1878–1936), published a history of children’s literature: https://bit.ly/3ODucyC, which is still worth a read.

By: Saba

Saba — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 12:33:24 +0000

So, William Darton must have done the engravings? I find them quite wonderful. Danger often lurks in nursery rhymes as, for instance, the baby falls out of a tree. The engravings honor the spooky shadows that hover just outside the frame.

I nestle into Spitalfields Life every morning while shadows do loom in society, thanks to disease, war, and the power-hungry.

By: Akkers

Akkers — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 09:33:28 +0000

Another interesting article. My Mum used to sing some of these to me as a child – happy days.

By: achim

achim — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 08:01:01 +0000

A.A.Milne had the talent to write special nursery rhymes and songs. It is always a pleasure to read them.

Politeness

If people ask me,
I always tell them:
“Quite well, thank you, I’m very glad to say.”
If people ask me,
I always answer,
“Quite well, thank you, how are you to-day?”
I always answer,
I always tell them,
If they ask me
Politely…..
BUT SOMETIMES

I wish

That they wouldn’t.

Love & Peace
ACHIM

By: Marcia Howard

Marcia Howard — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 07:15:41 +0000

An interesting post! I loved my own book of Nursery Rhymes which I remember from being a small child. I also remember singing the rhymes at infant school, doing all the appropriate actions. In time, my own children loved their nursery rhymes, as did my granddaughter. I admit some of the drawings from your post above might have made me feel differently, but my own book thankfully had more friendly looking pictures in it.

By: Joan Cooksley

Joan Cooksley — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 06:39:35 +0000

I’m wondering if there might be any connection between the school Darton attended in Yorkshire and Dickens’ Wackford Squeers?
The names are so similar.