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The four poems are by Houseman - the two stories are my own.  The first story is about the censorship of Houseman's "To an Athlete Dying Young."  The second story is about the importance of poetry and how memorizing one poem "When I was One and Twenty," had a profound affect on my life.  Perhaps the most important poem in the bunch - "Terrance this is stupid stuff," answers the question that many of my students ask about why so many of the poems that we read - so many of the important poems (and other texts) are so sad.  A copy of the four p

 The four poems are by Houseman - the two stories are my own.  The first story is about the censorship of Houseman's "To an Athlete Dying Young."  The second story is about the importance of poetry and how memorizing one poem "When I was One and Twenty," had a profound affect on my life.  Perhaps the most important poem in the bunch - "Terrance this is stupid stuff," answers the ques

 The four poems are by Houseman - the two stories are my own.  The first story is about the censorship of Houseman's "To an Athlete Dying Young."  The second story is about the importance of poetry and how memorizing one poem "When I was One and Twenty," had a profound affect on my life.  Perhaps the most important poem in the bunch - "Terrance this is stupid stuff," answers the ques

When, in college, I was told that this is the most important poem in the English Language - after reading it - after discussing it in my college class, I had no idea why that was true (or even if it was true).  Then I became a student teacher - and had to say goodbye to my first class - suddenly it dawned on me - my class became Dorothy (Wordsworth) and I here I was describing things to them that I had seen before and that they were seeing for the first time.

 We finish Arcadia - and what a finish it is.  Benard leaves - caught in disgrace - both for what he published and personally - Thomasina's diagram is studied by both Valentine and Septemis at the same time - and the entire story comes together like a lovely waltz.  This is the Period A recording of our read through.

 We finish Arcadia - and what a finish it is.  Benard leaves - caught in disgrace - both for what he published and personally - Thomasina's diagram is studied by both Valentine and Septemis at the same time - and the entire story comes together like a lovely waltz.  This is the Period B recording of our read through.

  We finish Arcadia - and what a finish it is.  Benard leaves - caught in disgrace - both for what he published and personally - Thomasina's diagram is studied by both Valentine and Septemis at the same time - and the entire story comes together like a lovely waltz.  This is the Period D recording of our read through.