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An Article on Poetic Knowledge

Dear Friends, I must encourage you whole-heartedly to visit this link (at the bottom of my post) and read the contents.  It is a book review (by a comrade–Kirk Kramer) of Dr. James Taylor’s Poetic Knowledge.  If you have not already picked up a copy of this book, I highly recommend that you do so. […]

Aeneid

“Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt.” There are tears of things, and mortal things touch the mind.

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Austen’s Art of Manners

Hello! This is my first post. I’m teaching high school English in rural Louisiana, and in order to spark some interest in my seniors as they begin Pride and Prejudice I wrote them a mini, informal essay. We had a wonderful discussion about Southern manners versus Northern (lack of) manners – and I explained to […]

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