All nations need reminders that even their best ideals, though worth defending, do not earn them chosen nation status. Reading C.S. Lewis’ “That Hideous Strength” and Langston Hughes’ “Let America Be America Again” in light of each other could rouse those in need of both a restoration of confidence in the goodness of the American [...]
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem “The Cry of the Children” recognizes the injustice of the exploitation of child labor, but her protest is not so much against the eternal class struggle as it is against the failures of her culture to remain true to its long-held beliefs. Her poem is thus a call to conserve culture [...]
Perhaps now more than ever the young people in our care need to be guided to read and understand literature that addresses suffering. We educators have the duty to introduce our students to fellow wayfarers, those life-long literary companions who can re-appear with true comfort when it is inevitably needed. As a teacher of literature, [...]