![]() ![]() ![]() Milne’s beloved Winnie the Pooh (from 1926), as well, of course, as that iconic young pair, Lewis Carroll’s Alice ( Alice in Wonderlands, 1865, Alice through the Looking-Glass, 1871) and James Barrie’s Peter Pan (from 1902). Fantasy contributes to glorifying an age that is closer to our origins, and thus to magic, the sacred, poetry and more: a refuge, in each of our lives, for the marvels of the beginning.įantasy from that era is still very much alive in our collective cultural memory, from Charles Kingsley’s Water-Babies (1863) to variations on the theme of animal fantasy in Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book (1894-95), Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows (1908), and, somewhat later, A.A. That construction would assign a specific form of imagination to very young children, one that would be idealized and quickly come to be seen as a kind of lost paradise. ![]() ![]() Tolkien, on the other hand, referred querulously to the “age of childhood sentiment,” to describe that point in the history of mindsets in which a cultural construction of childhood became established. England towards the end of the Victorian Era and into the Edwardian Era, at the turn of the twentieth century, experienced a “golden age” of children’s literature, to borrow the expression from the Scottish author Kenneth Grahame. ![]()
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