30 November 2005

Second Year/ John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

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How damned ridiculous it all is! The long generations toiling—skimping, lashing themselves screwing higher and higher the tension of their m...
24 November 2005

Second Year/ George Parkin Grant

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George Grant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The George Grant Reader. George Parkin Grant was born in Toronto (November 13, 1918) an...
19 November 2005

Attention: First Year/ Seminar 24 November

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Walden (1854). Henry David Thoreau ( 1817-1862) I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts...
17 November 2005

The epigraph from Dante’s Inferno

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The epigraph in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock from Dante’s Inferno: S’io dredesse che mia reposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al ...

Two extracts from Sinclair Lewis

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*There was but the hum of motor tires crunching the road, the creak of a rocker on the Howlands' porch, the slap of a hand attacking a m...

Quotes from Sinclair Lewis

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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. Damn the...
10 November 2005

Attention: Second Year/ T.S. Eliot (1888–1965)

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Prufrock and Other Observations. 1917. 1. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock LET us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out a...
09 November 2005

Tradition And the Individual Talent

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T.S.Eliot 1888-1965 We dwell with satisfaction upon the poet's difference from his predecessors, especially his immediate predecessors; ...
07 November 2005

Quotes from The Great Gatsby

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"I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful litt...
06 November 2005

First Year Seminar - 10 November 2005

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Washington Irving 1783-1859 The Sketch Book (1819-1820) Rip Van Winkle It was with some difficulty that he found the way to his house, which...
05 November 2005

Attention: Second Year/ This Week's Seminar

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The Great Gatsby (1925) By: Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) I stayed late that night, Gatsby asked me to wait until he was free, and I ...
30 October 2005

Attention: First Year/ Next Week's Seminar

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Thomas Paine 1737-1809 From The American Crisis THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot wi...
26 October 2005

Attention First Year / Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

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* A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost. for want of a shoe the horse was lost. for want of a shoe the h...
25 October 2005

Introduction to Practical Criticism

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Practical criticism is, like the formal study of English literature itself, a relatively young discipline. It began in the 1920s with a seri...

Attention: Second Year/ Henry James

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The following quotations from Henry James ( 1843-1916) will be discussed this week: *The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a...

Attention: First Year/ John and Abigail Adams

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John Adams ( 1735-1826). He was the first vice president of the United States and its second president. He was also a member of the First an...
20 October 2005

Post a message here for second Year

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Post a message here for First Year

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16 October 2005

Words to Ponder

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It is part of the business of the critic… to see literature steadily and to see it whole; and this is eminently to see it not as consecrated...
13 October 2005

Tell all the Truth..

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The following poem will be discussed on Oct 20 in the second year class: Tell all the Truth but tell it slant Emily Dickinson...