Memorizing poetry used to be standard classroom practice and poetry was widely popular before the snobs came in.
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Once We Memorized Poetry
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", "Ozymandias", "Trees", Alfred Lord Tennyson, Cleanth Brooks, Gunga Din, Joyce Kilmer, Memorizing poetry, Percy Shelley, Rudyard Kipling, Ulysses, William Wordsworth Comments closed
Sarah Palin and All the King’s Men
The political world seems to be agog over Sarah Palin these days, with Joel Klein of Time and David Broder of The Washington Post, two columnists I respect, telling us to take her very seriously. This has got me thinking of fictional populists, especially Willie Stark in Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men (1946), one of […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Alexander Pope, All the King's Men, Epistle to Arburthnot, politics, Populism, Sarah Palin Comments closed
