The Teaching of LiteratureSilver, Burdett, 1926 - 172 páginas This volume endeavors to present in comprehensive form a discussion of the aims to be attained in the teaching of literature as an instrument of liberal culture, and the basic methods that may be used to realize these aims. Its specific application is to the problems of teaching of English in junior an senior high school. |
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The Teaching of Literature Charles Carpenter Fries,James Holly Hanford,Harrison Ross Steeves Visualização integral - 1926 |
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academies activities Alfred Noyes Annabel Lee artistic aspects background Benedetto Croce CHAPTER classics college entrance contemporary literature course in literature critical cultural definite discussion drama eighteenth century Elizabethan emotional English composition English literature Entrance Requirements erature essay essential expression fact factors of experience feel field George Eliot grammar schools high school course high school students historical human ideals ideas important intellectual interest Ivanhoe Julius Cæsar knowledge language lish litera literary experience literary purpose literary selection literary study lyric matter means ment Merchant of Venice methods Middle Schools Milton mind modern nature novel objective open list poem poetic poetry point of view practical present prose pupils question reader reading secondary schools SELECTED REFERENCES sense Shakespeare Silas Marner social spirit story survey course taste Teaching of English teaching of literature things tion ture types vernacular literature vividly writing
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Página 79 - And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. / was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love — I and my ANNABEL LEE — .With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea...
Página 19 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and wee had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our liveli-hood, rear'd convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civill government; One of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministery to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Página 58 - For, don't you mark ? we're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see; And so they are better, painted — better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given for that; God uses us to help each other so, Lending our minds out.
Página 77 - Therefore by that dear name I long have called you You who are more than mother unto me. And fill my heart of hearts, where Death installed you In setting my Virginia's spirit free. My mother - my own mother, who died early, Was but the mother of myself; but you Are mother to the one I loved so dearly. And thus are dearer than the mother I knew By that infinity with which my wife Was dearer to my soul than its soul-life.
Página 80 - In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee. But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we, Of many far wiser than we; And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee: For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes...
Página 79 - In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love, I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling My beautiful Annabel Lee; So that her highborn kinsmen came And bore her away from me, To shut her up in a sepulchre In this kingdom by the sea.
Página 15 - This is what I should like to do. I'd like to take a large stone and write on it in very plain writing, — "The classics are only primitive literature. They belong in the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine...
Página 76 - Except for their happiness, and the natural ambition of 257 having a magazine of his own, I never heard him deplore the want of wealth. The truth is, he cared little for money, and knew less of its value, for he seemed to have no personal expenses.
Página 78 - During these fits of absolute unconsciousness, I drank — God only knows how often or how much. As a matter of course my enemies referred the insanity to the drink, rather than the drink to the insanity.
Página 20 - The essence of humanism consisted in a new and vital perception of the dignity of man as a rational being, and in the further perception that classic literature alone displayed human nature in the plentitude of intellectual and moral freedom." 2 But before one could thus approach classic literature for the purposes of such a liberal education the languages must be mastered with a thoroughness that demanded years of preliminary training. Many indeed never rose from the language to arrive at literature...