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Reading Classical Literature

Friday, December 7th, 2007

The authors of a particular classical education book suggest reading Dante, Chaucer, and Beowulf in the second grade. I didn’t read these until high school. What do you recommend? C.S. I have your book Teaching the Trivium but I do not seem to be able to find any mention of your position on reading the [...]

The Book of Authors by William Clark Russell

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

The book of authors: a collection of criticisms, ana, môts, personal descriptions, etc. etc., etc., wholly referring to English men of letters in every age of English literature by William Clark Russell (1844-1911) The place of books in the public estimation is fixed, not by what is written about them, but by what is written [...]

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