Putting Poetry Back in Brains
I had the great fortune to be classically educated by my parents. It involved, of course, a great deal of language and literature and a more than bountiful serving of poetry. I encountered “Hiawatha” and “Ring, Wild Bells,” “The Ruin” and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Shakespeare, Donne, Browning, Dickinson, Rossetti, Dante, and Frost […]
