英文名：Selected Lullabies
中文名：经典童谣
作者: Eugene Field
内容介绍：
世界上所听到的最甜美的歌声，就是在摇篮上唱过的摇篮曲。贝多芬和莫扎特的音乐，门德尔松和舒曼的音乐也许会消亡，但只要母亲们唱着婴儿的歌声入睡，摇篮曲的旋律就会一直存在。在所有的英美作家中，最常唱这些摇篮曲、最精美的是儿童诗人尤金-菲尔德。他的诗句不仅具有诗歌的魅力，而且具有独特的歌曲品质和天真烂漫的幻想，既充满童趣，又吸引人。它们是出于尤金-菲尔德对儿童深沉而真挚的爱，出于对儿童好奇心的同情理解而写成的，这从他的摇篮曲在世界童年经典文学中占据了很高的地位和似乎永久的地位就可以看出。
The sweetest songs the world has ever heard are the lullabies that have been crooned above its cradles. The music of Beethoven and Mozart, of Mendelssohn and Schumann may perish, but so long as mothers sing their babies to sleep the melody of cradle lullabies will remain. Of all English and American writers the one who sang most often and most exquisitely these cradle songs was Eugene Field, the children’s poet. His verses not only have charm as poetry, but a distinct song quality and a naive fancy that is both childlike and appealing. That they were written out of Eugene Field’s deep and genuine love of children and out of his sympathetic understanding of their wondering minds is evident from the fact that his lullabies have taken a high and what seems to be a permanent place in the world’s classic literature of childhood. (Excerpted by Becky Miller from the Introduction by Edwin Osgood Grover to “Cradle Lullabies” by Eugene Field, published in 1909)
