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“The organization of the content across poetry, drama, prose and translation assures a comprehensive approach that is informative and generous of spirit, through an array of examples that resonate with accessibility and relevance.” —Restoration
Approaches to Teaching Poe's Prose and Poetry
Charles Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil ( Les Fleurs du Mal ) may be the most influential, and perhaps the greatest, book of lyric poetry in French literature. At once Romantic and modernist, it belongs to both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume in the MLA’s series Approaches to Teaching World Literature is the first devoted to a lyric poet who did not write in English, and it
The inaugural volume in the MLA’s popular Approaches to Teaching World Literature series comprises bibliographic and instructional essays devoted to the first great English poet. The consultant editor, Florence H. Ridley, notes in her introduction, “As teachers we are faced with the challenge of enabling our students to see how Chaucer’s poetry passes the ultimate test of the world’s greatest
seventeenth-century love poetry, religion, iconography, and representations of women in metaphysical poetry. Another group of essays explores various course contexts, including lower- and upper-division survey courses and a humanities-based composition course. The final section presents essays focusing on each of the five poets.
classroom: finding reliable and accessible scholarly editions, incorporating new writers into already-crowded syllabi, and dealing with entrenched notions of Romanticism. The contributors to this volume have undertaken, in the words of the editors, “the liberating and invigorating task of redrawing the landscape of Romantic poetry,” and in twenty-six essays they share their experiences and their
in the American Essay Canon (31) Ned Stuckey-French Politically Ethical Aesthetics: Teaching Emerson’s Poetry in the Context of Diversity in the United States (37) Saundra Morris Teaching Emerson’s Philosophical Inheritance (46) Susan L. Dunston Emerson and the Reform Culture of the Second Great Awakening (53) Todd H. Richardson The Turbulent Embrace of Thinking: Teaching Emerson the Educator (59
Responses to a survey conducted for this volume indicate that most teachers of Blake begin with Songs of Innocence and of Experience; the work is included in the syllabi of courses on literature and poetry at all levels, as well as courses in religious studies, humanities, and composition. The book’s continuing fascination can be attributed to the many intellectual, theoretical, and pedagogical
to modern English as a study aid. The essays in part 2, “Approaches,” begin by exploring the poetry’s backgrounds, including sources and genre; the growth of the English vernacular as a literary language; Chaucer’s conception of history in its Christian, classical, and English political senses; the role of manuscript study in illuminating the historical record; and Chaucer’s representation of
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