I’ve embarked on a new Teaching Company Course – How to read and Understand Poetry, taught by William Spiegelman It is lovely to listen to and think about poems while commuting to work, facing another day of drudgery. As Goethe said, “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good [...]
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TC – Poetry
Posted in Poetry, Teaching Company on September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Reading connections
Posted in Poetry, Teaching Company on November 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I love the game of literary references, how one thing leads to another, for instance, I had never heard of Dietrich Bonhoeffer before my TeachCo course. I read the New Yorker cover-to-cover (well, almost) every week. So, in a recent issue (in October?), there was a reference to Bonhoeffer in a letter from a reader. [...]
