Childhood in literature and art, with some observations on literature for children

by Horace Elisha Scudder

What may lie in the future I will not venture to predict, but it is quite safe to say that the form in which childhood is presented will still depend upon the sympathy of imaginative writers with the ideal of childhood, and that the form of literature for children will be determined by the greater or less care with which society guards the sanctity of childish life.

FOOTNOTES

[1] Chapman’s The Iliads of Homer, ii. 70-77.

[2] Iliads, iv. 147-151.

[3] Iliads, xvi. 5-8.

[4] Ibid. xi. 485-490.

[5] Iliad, vi. 466-475, 482-485.

[6] Goldwin Smith’s translation.

[7] John Addington Symonds’s translation.