Word: englished
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wordsworth was a romanticist, Addison wrote newspaper articles in 18th Century London, Newman was a Cardinal, and Donne did not always practice what he preached. These are some of the miscellaneous and disconnected facts about English literary history, which are about all most of the men who are taking English 1 will ever remember. This gigantic survey course, which attempts to cover all of English literature from Beowulf to Beerbohm, is required for all English concentrators and has been consistently criticized through the years as being exhausting, boring, and worthless...
...English concentrators need a good background for their later studies in the field, but they do not need to waste a year acquiring a smattering of unassimilated, stereotyped facts and literary cliches. The English Department should reform this course so as to make it a true comprehensive history of English letters and not the literary almanac that it is today...
...Visiting Committee for English, now reviewing the workings of the department, should recommend a less ponderous and more pleasurable introduction to the field of English literature...
...students in English A-1, Ciardi is just about the perfect writing coach. Affable, sincerely interested, seldom contesting his students' aims but dealing with their methods and treatment, Ciardi's criticism of the short stories that make up the bulk of the courses is often a formulation of the writer's own vague misgivings, and hardly ever clashes with the writer's own standards and opinions. Ciardi tries to steer his students down the middle road. Personal standards are indispensible; but on the other hand, the "purpose of writing is to be read" and prose must be communicative...
Born three decades ago in Boston, Ciardi spent his undergraduate years in Bates and Tufts, and then moved out to Michigan for his M. A. in English. There, in 1939, "I suddenly found myself very rich" when "Homeward to America," a book of verse, won the annual Hopwood prize and was accepted for publication...