I was looking for Reynolds Price‘s email address at Duke to ask him for any written instructions or rubrics he gives his students for their gospels, and I found this.
What a loss.
On slow reading
- Thirteen views on slow reading by Dave Bonta, Teju Cole, John Miedema, Robert Ray, Satya Robyn, & Peter Stephens:
- The art of reading
- Bedtime poetry
- Conversations with poems
- Cross-referencing
- East Coker on the rebind
- How to mark a book
- How to read slowly
- The leisure of bygone readings
- Our sardonic Lord
- Poetry & sacred reading
- Reading like writers
- Slow reader
- Slow reading
Marginal
- On Prose to the Gettysburg Address’s Poetry. An American child's first penetration into the Gettysburg Address is that "fourscore and seven" means "eighty-seven." What else does it mean? A year ago, Adam Goodheart’s book 1861: The Civil War Awakening helped me unpack the opening phrase of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. In marking our nation’s birth at the moment the Declaration of Independence was ... - More: # - 12/30/2014
- On The Tempest. Baldwin says something very similar to what Langbaum says in one of my post’s epigraphs, but from a broader perspective. Langbaum: “. . . romance deals in marvelous events and solves its problems through metamorphoses and recognition scenes – through, in other words, transformations of perception.” Baldwin wouldn’t disagree, I don’t think, but he sees “metamorphoses and recognition” as ... - More: # - 12/26/2014
- On Liberty and inequality. G.K. Chesterton would have been my kind of Union man had he been an American. While he faulted the English Socialists for denying the poor their humanity in the name of an ideal, he faulted the Tories for dong the same in the name of tradition's accident. Chesterton’s Edmund Burke was Lincoln’s John C. Calhoun – an ... - More: # - 11/21/2013
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Oh, that is sad. Reading it though I saw, to my surprise and pleasure that Dick Brodhead is now president of Duke. I knew him at Yale: he was one of those disguised bodhisattvas. Everyone who encountered him felt heeded. It’s nice to know someone like that can make it to such a position.