The Spirit of the English Language: A Practical Guide for Poets, Teachers and Students: How Sound Works in English & American Poetry - Softcover
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John Wulsin, a language teacher of thirty years, here traces the spirit and evolution of the English language. Taking poetry as his guide, he examines how English has sounded over the past thirteen centuries, and how those changes have affected Western consciousness. This work, destined to be a classic, is filled with the textures of the lives and works of the great English-language poets, from Beowulf and Chaucer to Gerard Manley Hopkins and Emily Dickinson.
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John Wulsin trained as a Steiner-Waldorf teacher at Emerson College and has taught English and Drama at Green Meadow Waldorf School in New York State for twenty-seven years. He is on the editorial board of Renewal: A Journal for Waldorf Education and is the author of Laws of the Living Language and Proverbs of Purgatory.
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