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Cargando... A Rhyming History of Britain: 55 B.C.-A.D. 1966 (2003)por James Muirden
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I chose this book because I thought its rhymes would help me learn British history, but it absolutely did not work. There are so many damned royals named Charles, Edward, William, James, or Henry, it's just impossible to keep them and their role in history straight. Now, aside from not sticking in my head at all, the book was fine. In fact, it was pretty fun to read. So good for general fun reading, but probably not for learning/retaining info. ( ) An attempt to relate the history of Britain, in an entertaining way, from about 55BC (the Romans arrival in Britain) to 1966. 'Attempt' is the defining word for me - one star for effort, perhaps, but this isn't a success. This may be partly because I find this form - the semi-serious history - very unsatisfying. It's trying to be educational and light-hearted and fails at both. '1066 and all that' is another example, although I know that there are many, many people who like that book. If you do, perhaps you will also like this one. But you do have to deal with the added problem of the quality of the poetry, which ranges from acceptable to appalling. Here's an example, from the flyleaf, where the author has chosen to describe themselves in verse:
Some of it is worse than that, and some of it is better. But it frequently fails to scan and is very hard work. The text is illustrated with light-hearted (but again, not actually funny) cartoons and is annotated with remarks indicating which historical event is being described, which gives it some credibility from the educational point of view. But I struggle to understand who would gain pleasure, or learn much, from reading this. Full Review I'm not much into poetry, (I can barely read Shel Silverstein), but I love British history. Anglophile that I am, I was glad to come across James Muirden's, A Rhyming History of Britain. Writing more for his own amusement and desire to remember, Muirden's couplets tell the sometimes sad but often hilarious history of the reigning monarchs of England from the Celts to the free love 1960's. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
I am not a historian. In fact, I wrote this poem in order to teach myself some history. I thought that sorting facts into verse form would concentrate my mind wonderfully. Which it did. Brought up with the iambic pentameters of Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Verses ringing in his ears, James Muirden's rhyming history is a long poem in an equally simple and jolly form. Irreverent, humorous and illustrated by David Eccles. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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