Poetry Stevenson vs. Rossetti

In class for the past week, we have discussed two authors of poetry that have greatly effected children's literature. Robert Louis Stevenson and Christine Rossetti. Both have a very unique perspective on what it means to create poetry for children. Stevenson's Garden of verses is greatly made up of poetry that is playful, fun, and imaginative. As well as creating children as the speaker. Most of Stevenson's poetry is all of fun in games, hardly any adult presence or didactic meaning involved. On the contrary, Rossetti's poetry leaves out the fun and games and is heavily composed of didactice and moral meaning. Adults have a strong sense of presence in these pieces and there is hardly any time left for fun. Death, mortality, parting, and marriage are major themes in Rossetti's writings. Thus differing from Stevenson.
Although both writers have a vast different writing style they are major assests to children's literature.