Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in AmericaListen to a short interview with Joan Shelley RubinHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane |
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... teachers choosing a poem for classroom use to make sure that it was " inter- woven with suggestions that give it as many different meanings as there are minds to hear it . " 32 Several consequences followed from such premises . The ...
... teachers relinquished not only the burden of ethical instruction but also the obligation to foster the " tech- nical " command of form , or even full comprehension of mean- ing . Quoting the efficiency proponent Franklin Bobbitt ...
... Teachers of English in 1943 recommended teaching literature that emphasized individual free- dom while fostering " personal adjustment . " The NCTE also advo- cated exposing students to works that advanced both " understand- ing of the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
THE POET IN AMERICAN CULTURE | 10 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 30 |
Copyright | |
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