Aaron Ames

 For anyone who has taught at the high school level, this topic needs little introduction. It’s nearing the end of the period, and you have been laboriously explaining a difficult concept that you are certain many of the students are giving minimal effort in understanding, when little Johnny quite abruptly, without raising his hand, blurts […]

 I want to begin by asking a simple question:  Why is it that poetry has, as Anthony Esolen said,  “almost no purchase upon the popular mind”?   Writing in his autobiography, Charles Darwin presents us with a hint::    …my mind has changed during the last twenty or thirty years. Up to the age of thirty, or