The poetics of childhood vs The Pooh Perplex: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Children's literature, Books and Reading, Children, History and criticism
The poetics of childhood
The Poetics of Childhood investigates the sensibility of childhood and the ways writers try to recapture it. It explores the earliest conceptions of innocence and the development of literature about children through…
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The Pooh Perplex
In this devastatingly funny classic, Frederick Crews skewers the ego-inflated pretensions of the schools and practitioners of literary criticism popular in the 1960s, including Freudians, Aristotelians, and New Critics.…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- The Pooh Perplex is the quickest read — about 2 hours vs 5 for The poetics of childhood.
- The poetics of childhood has the widest readership — 6 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| The poetics of childhood | The Pooh Perplex | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.5 (6) | — |
| Hardcover | — | 4.0 (3) |
Reception
| The poetics of childhood | The Pooh Perplex | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 6 | 3 |
| Editions | 14 | 11 |
| Citations | 46 | — |
| Want to read | 14 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 207 |
| Pages | 296 | 150 |