November 9, 2007

Neither Shakespeare nor Homer has an importance bestowed by literature professors and their universities. The true bestowal flows entirely in the other direction. What professors of literature can rightly bestow is honor, because meaningful praise has to come from those who know the excellence of things. Why Literature Matters, Glenn Arbery Change professors to teachers […]

Continuing this theme and wishing I had more time to go into it, here is the third of Berry’s “Good Solutions”: “A good solution improves the balances, symmetries, or harmonies within a pattern–it is a qualitative solution–rather than enlarging or complicating some part of a pattern at the expense or in neglect of the rest.”