After my last post about the value of memorizing poetry, a reader requested a list of great poems to memorize for the summer. My list is short: the greatest poem to memorize for the summer is a poem you love. Love is why children memorize Mother Goose rhymes. Love is […]
MoreI’m an Anglophile. I like repression, I suppose, depth under calm facades. My favorite writers—Austen, Dickens, Penelope Fitzgerald, Jane Gardam, David Mitchell, Barbara Pym, Andrea Levy to name a few—have always been Brits, and now my favorite education secretary—if one can admit to such pedantic tastes—is English as well. British education secretary Michael Gove […]
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