The Educated ImaginationIndiana University Press, 22 gen 1964 - 160 pagine Addressed to educators and general readers—the "consumers of literature" from all walks of life—this important new book explores the value and uses of literature in our time. Dr. Frye offers, in addition, challenging and stimulating ideas for the teaching of literature at lower school levels, designed both to promote an early interest and to lead the student to the knowledge and kaleidoscopic experience found in the study of literature. |
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... poet got his reputation as a kind of licensed liar . The word poet itself means liar in some languages , and the words we use in literary criticism - fable , fiction , myth — have all come to mean something we can't believe . Some par ...
... poet gets taken over too . As we said in our first talk , the poet as a person is no wiser or better a man than anyone else . He's a man with a special craft of putting words together , but he may have no claim on our attention beyond ...
... poets , with Milton for example , we feel that here is a great man who happened to be a poet , but would still have been great whatever he did . With other equally great poets , including Homer and Shake- speare , we feel only that they ...
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THE SINGING SCHOOL | 35 |
GIANTS IN TIME | 59 |
THE KEYS TO DREAMLAND | 83 |
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