Lists, chronologically by century, recordings of English poems which have been set to music, emphasizing those by avant rock performers. (RD)

Uses the example of Samuel Richardson's readers' responses to his characters as "real" to illustrate the importance of readers' attitudes toward book characters. (DD)

Describes how an in-class journal was used in a college Shakespeare course to involve students in a daily communication process. (DD)

Describes the loss of esteem as a children's classic of "The Water Babies," discusses the literary justification for keeping it in circulation, and offers suggestions for using it in children's education. (JM)

Analyzed relevant works of Chaucer, More, Locke, Shakespeare, Bayly, Milton, Prior, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Hazlitt, and Dickens for their imagery of youth and adolescence. Concluded that way youth are depicted in these works remained remarkably stable over time. Main theme of adolescence throughout these works is that it is time of turbulence,…

Presents an approach for teaching Chaucer's "Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale" (from "The Canterbury Tales"). Recommends several reference texts related to the "The Canterbury Tales" and medieval literature in general. (MM)

Focuses on Renaissance English technical writing, which includes how-to books and legal, educational, and medical publications. Asserts that how-to books along with religious, classic, historical, and romance texts were popular in all sectors of society. Discusses the development of format and illustrations and contains examples of extant works.…

Advises that there are opportunities for people with skills in Web publishing, specifically in areas of English Literature, skills so new that they are still acquiring labels and job titles. Coins the term "information architecture" as a concept and a need that arises from the creation of large-scale, ongoing Web projects, a phenomenon that is…

When a multiculturalist in one of today's politicized departments imposes his relative nihilism on students--and will tolerate no questioning of that orthodoxy--he is acting on the same self-interested urge for conformity that impels your average suicide bomber. Balance does not come into play. Max Hocutt treats the impulse toward political…

Stephen Greenblatt imbues "The Norton Shakespeare"--the widely used annotated collection of which he is editor--with a new historicism that limits inquiry largely to questions of power as they affect race, class, and sex. Sean Benson considered teaching from the volume, but found that Greenblatt's materialist ideology does not foster an…

This teacher's guide for William Shakespeare's play "Henry V" is designed to accompany the Kenneth Branagh Masterpiece Theater film production of the play, and to help teachers use the film in a variety of ways. The guide includes pre-viewing background information, five teaching units, and a pullout poster for classroom display. The…

Non-segmental properties functioning in verse are discussed in an attempt to point to the possibility of a semantic analysis of the poem based entirely on accent. (Available from: See FL 508 214.) (Author/RM)

Argues that Wordsworth's emphasis on love of nature, faith in man, and political sympathy--three expressions of concern strongly echoed in contemporary life--make him a worth literary figure for young people to study. (RB)

Describes several opening passages from modern English novels to illustrate a grammatical-analysis approach to the study of literature. (RB)

A DISCUSSION COURSE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM 1500 TO 1900 ORGANIZED AROUND REPRESENTATIVE MASTERPIECES HAS BEEN CREATED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA. THE COURSE, CALLED ENGLISH SEMESTER, MEETS TWO HOURS DAILY AND IS CONDUCTED BY THREE STAFF MEMBERS TO ACCOMMODATE 35 STUDENTS, USUALLY IN THEIR JUNIOR YEAR. THE NEW PROGRAM PROVIDES AN OPTION FOR…