Evidence: | 'This modern fashion [in the study of poetry in schools] of treating noble thoughts, feelings, and principles, set forth in prose or verse, merely as the material for grammatical analysis, appears to my prejudiced mind to be a kind of intellectual vivisection. The life is destroyed in the act of discovering and distinguishing the elements of which its body os composed. A young friend of mine said to me that she had 'done' the story of Margaret, in the Excursion, with notes, for a correspondence class [...] All that she had retained from this 'doing' was, as far
as I can gather, nothing but the fact that she had 'done' it. Feeling, admiration, there was none. The poetry had been a lesson to be "got through."' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | anon |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
Occupation: | child |
Religion: | unknown |
Country of origin: | unknown |
Country of experience: | unknown |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | a "young friend" of Elizabeth Sewell |
Author: | William Wordsworth |
Title: | The Excursion (excerpts) |
Genre: | Fiction, Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 14156 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | 'The Reign of Pedantry in Girls' Schools' (article in The Nineteenth Century) | |
Place of Publication: | n/a | |
Date of Publication: | 1888 | |
Vol: | 23 | |
Page: | 218 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, 'The Reign of Pedantry in Girls' Schools' (article in The Nineteenth Century) (1888), 23, p. 218, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=14156, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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