أدب الأطفال وخدمات الشاعر أحمد شوقي في هذا الحقل: دراسة وتطبيق

Abstract

Child literature is a renewed literary genre in modern human
literature. The development of this literary genre began in the
seventeenth century in Europe, and flourished all over the world.
But the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were known
as the "Golden age of Child Literature”. This type of literature
enters in the hearts and minds of Arabs through the students of
Egyptian Arab mission to Europe. This kind of literature began
in Arab depending on artistic basis of translation and influencing
modern Western literature. Rifaa al-Tahtawi (1801-1873 AD)
was the first to start this part of the Arabic literature by
translating a book from English into Arabic. Then Ahmad
Shawqi (1868-1932 AD) tried to find literature for the Arab
children similar to the children in civilized countries. He wrote
with a clear philosophy for children that came in response to the
child’s spirit and made this kind of literature as complete part of
Artistic literature.