This dissertation is concerned with the role that close reading (textual analysis of a literary work) plays in the methods, teaching materials, and training of prospective secondary school English teachers. Despite the impact of the movement of close reading in higher education and educators' recent call for its practice in the high school, there…

Critical discussions of reader reaction are often only disguised discussions of author intention. (JH)

Article includes texts and analyses of Alan Brownjohn's A202,'' Ted Hughes' Lineage'' and Conjuring in Heaven,'' and Adrian Mitchell's To Whom It May Concern.'' (RS)

Considers literature from the capitalistic and communistic points of view and discusses the respective literary critics of the two ideologies. (DS)

Able 11th- and 12th-grade students can enjoy the imagery, direct language, and indirect thought of T. S. Eliot. Eliot's treatment of the apathetic society and the isolated individual, his concern for spirituality over sensuality, and his plea for collective responsibility for evil are themes that can be traced in his major works through…

The thesis that style through the manner of expression provides the writer or speaker with the matter of his discourse is the subject of these eight essays. Articles are by (1) Louis T. Milic, who explores the implication of stylistic theory for the teaching of composition, (2) Martin Joos, who relates style theories to the national enthusiasm for…

In "The Reason for Poetry," the first of two lectures contained in this booklet, the poet William Meredith argues for a more generous definition of poetry. To move away from the narrow appreciation of poetry as "what I like," Meredith suggests that readers must shift their focus from their own expectations on reading a poem to…

Author shows how poetry and doctrine must be separated when reading Lycidas without destroying the feeling of the poem. (MF)