[Cautionary Tales]
Year:
1907
Type:
Public:
Publisher:
Oxford City Press
Year of publication:
2012
Pages:
82
Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality:
Recommendable:
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Ideas that contradict Church teaching:
The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators
Aimed at children and adults alike, these are funny, though at times serious, nonsense poems with a clear moral to be learned. Hilaire Belloc was born in 1870 in France, educated at Oxford and died in 1953. All his working life he was a journalist, while becoming famous as an essayist on social, political and Catholic issues. Though the style is now rather dated, such poetry was extremely popular in its day. It must be said, though, that only a few of the tales rise above absurdity and are both clever and amusing.
Author: Cliff Cobb, United Kingdom
Update on: May 2023