Nonsense in the Netherlands

A recent collection of children's verse compiled by Jan Van Coillie uses the subtitle "The 120 funniest poems for children" (my emphasis). Besides a few older Dutch items and translations from English (e.g., four poems by Roald Dahl and no fewer than eleven by Shel Silverstein!),Van C...

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Published in:Bookbird 2015-01, Vol.53 (3), p.9-19
Main Author: Tigges, Wim
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anthologies
British & Irish literature
Carroll, Lewis (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832-1898)
Children
Children & youth
Childrens Literature
Childrens poetry
Dutch language
English language
English literature
Genre
Italian
Language history
Literary Genres
Literary translation
Nursery Rhymes
Old English
Poetry
Poets
Prose
Romance Languages
Russian literature
Subtitles & subtitling
War
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Summary:A recent collection of children's verse compiled by Jan Van Coillie uses the subtitle "The 120 funniest poems for children" (my emphasis). Besides a few older Dutch items and translations from English (e.g., four poems by Roald Dahl and no fewer than eleven by Shel Silverstein!),Van Coillie mainly includes a handful of poems each by such well-known twentieth-century Dutch poets and writers (for adults as well as children) as Han G. Hoekstra (1906-1988), Annie M.G. Schmidt (1911-1995), Diet Huber (1924-2008), Rudy Kousbroek (1929-2010), and Willem Wilmink (1936-2003). Since Boelens and Komrij do comment on the relationship between nonsense and Zen Buddhism (23), their omission of Tellegen's prose, which borders on the mystic without becoming overtly philosophical, is curious.
ISSN:0006-7377
1918-6983
1918-6983
DOI:10.1353/bkb.2015.0073