Hilary Robinson Bram Stoker

Reciting Poetry is One Thing, Loving it Another

Hilary Robinson | Posted 10.08.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Hilary Robinson

It has long been recognised that poetry is a valuable device for introducing new words in isolation - such as 'contrary' in 'Mary Mary' but it is the 'garden of silver bells and cockle shells' that will fire the creative imagination and inspired teachers no doubt take the form further by looking at the enthralling stories borne out of the context from which many such rhymes originated.