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A record of a teacher's lifelong love affair with the beauty, wit,
and pro fundity of Paradise Lost, celebrating John Milton's
un-doctrinal, complex, and therefore deeply satisfying perception
of the human condition. After surveying Milton's recurrent struggle
as a reconciler of conflicting ide als, this Primer undertakes a
book-by-book reading of Paradise Lost, re viewing key features of
Milton's "various style," and why we treasure that style. Cavanagh
constantly revisits Milton the singer and maker, and the artistic
problems he faced in writing this almost impossible poem. This book
is emphatically for first-time readers of Milton, with little or no
prior exposure, but with ambition to encounter challenging poetry.
These are readers who tell you they "have always been meaning to
read Paradise Lost," who seek to enjoy the epic without being
overwhelmed by its daunting learning and expansive frame of
reference. Avoiding the narrowly specialized focus of most Milton
scholarship, Cavanagh deals forthrightly with issues that recur
across generations of readers, gather ing selected voices-from
scholars and poets alike-from 1674 through the present. Lively and
jargon-free, this Primer makes Paradise Lost accessible and fresh,
offering a credible beginning to what is a great intellectual and
aesthetic adventure.
A lively and engaging guide to vital habits of mind that can help
you think more deeply, write more effectively, and learn more
joyfully How to Think like Shakespeare is a brilliantly fun
exploration of the craft of thought-one that demonstrates what
we've lost in education today, and how we might begin to recover
it. In fourteen brief chapters that draw from Shakespeare's world
and works, and from other writers past and present, Scott Newstok
distills enduring practices that can make learning more creative
and pleasurable. Challenging a host of today's questionable notions
about education, Newstok shows how mental play emerges through
work, creativity through imitation, autonomy through tradition,
innovation through constraint, and freedom through discipline. It
was these practices, and a conversation with the past-not a
fruitless obsession with assessment-that nurtured a mind like
Shakespeare's. And while few of us can hope to approach the genius
of the Bard, we can all learn from the exercises that shaped him.
Written in a friendly, conversational tone and brimming with
insights, How to Think like Shakespeare enacts the thrill of
thinking on every page, reviving timeless-and timely-ways to
stretch your mind and hone your words.
A lively and engaging guide to vital habits of mind that can help
you think more deeply, write more effectively, and learn more
joyfully How to Think like Shakespeare is a brilliantly fun
exploration of the craft of thought-one that demonstrates what
we've lost in education today, and how we might begin to recover
it. In fourteen brief chapters that draw from Shakespeare's world
and works, and from other writers past and present, Scott Newstok
distills enduring practices that can make learning more creative
and pleasurable. Challenging a host of today's questionable notions
about education, Newstok shows how mental play emerges through
work, creativity through imitation, autonomy through tradition,
innovation through constraint, and freedom through discipline. It
was these practices, and a conversation with the past-not a
fruitless obsession with assessment-that nurtured a mind like
Shakespeare's. And while few of us can hope to approach the genius
of the Bard, we can all learn from the exercises that shaped him.
Written in a friendly, conversational tone and brimming with
insights, How to Think like Shakespeare enacts the thrill of
thinking on every page, reviving timeless-and timely-ways to
stretch your mind and hone your words.
A lively and engaging guide to vital habits of mind that can help
you think more deeply, write more effectively, and learn more
joyfully How to Think like Shakespeare offers an enlightening and
entertaining guide to the craft of thought--one that demonstrates
what we've lost in education today, and how we might begin to
recover it. In fourteen brief chapters that draw from Shakespeare's
world and works, and from other writers past and present, Scott
Newstok distills vital habits of mind that can help you think more
deeply, write more effectively, and learn more joyfully, in school
or beyond. Written in a friendly, conversational tone and brimming
with insights, How to Think like Shakespeare enacts the thrill of
thinking on every page, reviving timeless--and timely--ways to
stretch your mind and hone your words.
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