For the Love of Literature

These authors give us all an antidote to the decline in cultural literacy and general “dumbing down” that has been noted in all education: namely, they help us to remember how very much we love literature and everything about it.

This is a book that can help parents and teachers pass along a love of literature to the students they teach — and in so doing, it can help uplift the world we live in.

Contents:

Part One

• Christy MacKaye Barnes, nine essays, including: “Can the Imagination Be Trained?” “The Crisis of the Word Today” “Why Write?” “Schooling Capacities through the Study of Great Authors” “Backgrounds for Russian Literature”

Part Two

• Adam Bittleston, “The Future of the English Language”
• L. Francis Edmunds, “Literature in the Upper School”
• Linda Sawers, “In the Footsteps of Dante”
• Isabelle Wyatt, “Chaucer and the Modern Consciousness”
• A. C. Harwood, “Fair Mountain and Fine City”
• Adam Bittleston, “Shakespeare’s Troubled Kings”
• Ursula Grahl, “In Quest of the Holy Grail”
• L. Francis Edmunds, “The Trials of Parsifal”
• Hugh Hetherington, “Grail Mountain and Garden of Marvels”
• Eileen Hutchins, “Wolfram and Wagner”
• Adam Bittleston, “Christopher Fry and the Riddle of Evil”
• Susan Demanett, “Questing toward a True Understanding of Grammar”
• Dorit Winter, “We Love Grammar”