English in Schools: Bk. 1

Thompson, Denys

O'Malley, Raymond

Heinemann Educ.

Children as poets;

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Heinemann Educational

Covering literature from the early centuries before 1485 all the way to the twentieth century, the author recommdends several titles needed to be a well red individual. Title was printed simultaneously in the UK and the US. vi , 154 pages. cloth, dustjacket, top edge red. 8vo..

What to Read in English Literature

Heinemann

vii 199p plain green cloth, index, glossary, various contributors, bibliography, faint ink and pencil markings on a few pages, otherwise a well preserved copy from a Cambridge college library

Directions Teaching English

Children's Books

Education & Reference

Cambridge University Press

Directions in the Teaching of English

F. R. Leavis died in 1978 and his wife Q. D. Leavis in 1981, and with their deaths ended one of the most productive and influential literary partnerships in the language. This volume is a collection of reminiscences by people who knew Queenie Leavis as fellow students at Girton, were early pupils of Frank Raymon Leavis, collaborated in the editing of Scrutiny, or were colleagues or friends later. The collection, which is illustrated, is full of rich and fresh biographical information. Since it covers such a wide span, it brings out the contrast between the young couple at the beginning of their careers, good-looking, hopeful and confident; and the embattled veterans in seemingly endless conflict even with their friends and supporters. It also suggests the mercurial nature of both, since they could seem so widely different to different people, and to the very end both could exert formidable charm. Denys Thompson, who edited this volume, was an early pupil of Leavis's, and collaborated with him on Culture and Environment in the 1930s.

The Leavises: Recollections and Impressions

Biographies & Memoirs

Readings

Teen & Young Adult

This is an account of the part played by poetry in the life of man from earliest times to the present. Older than prose, it was the vehicle for his technology, history, philosophy and science; it helped him feel at home in his environment; it was the social element between him and his fellows. Mr Thompson explores these many facets in the earlier chapters of his book, and then goes on to consider the impact of printing when in his view poetry became subtler but ceased to be a popular possession. However, as Mr Thompson shows, poetry could still be of value in helping people to cope with the strains of living, in assimilating the implications of vast new fields of knowledge, and in keeping alive the idea of humanity in a dehumanising age.

The Uses of Poetry

History & Criticism

British & Irish

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