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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Northrop Frye. He wrote an essay called Four Ages of Poetry , with his tongue of course in his cheek , in which he said that poetry was the mental rattle that awakened the im- agination of mankind in its infancy , but that now , in an ...
... Poets of Shake- speare's day hated to admit that they were writing words on a page : they always insisted that they were producing music . In pastoral poetry they might be playing a flute ( or more accurately an oboe ) , but every other ...
... poetry , then work outward to literary prose , then outward from there to the applied languages of business and professions and ordinary life . Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words : the most ...