"My blue-sky proposal: teach America’s kids to read by making them read poetry. Shakespeare and Pope and Milton by the fifth grade; in high school, Dante and Catullus in the original. By graduation, they would know Anne Carson and Derek Walcott by heart. A child taught to parse a sentence by Dickinson would have no trouble understanding Donald H. Rumsfeld’s known knowns and unknown unknowns."
-William Logan
NY Times, June 14, 2014
William Logan is the author of “Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure: The Dirty Art of Poetry” and the poetry collection “Madame X,” and a professor of English at the University of Florida
-William Logan
NY Times, June 14, 2014
William Logan is the author of “Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure: The Dirty Art of Poetry” and the poetry collection “Madame X,” and a professor of English at the University of Florida
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