[Gutenberg 50082] • Talks on Teaching Literature

Excerpt from Talks on Teaching Literature

Shakespeare, for instance, for the reader to fail to perceive how the idea burns through the word, how wide is the difference between the mere ap prehension of the language and the comprehension of the poet's meaning. In the study of great po etry the impossibility of resting satisfied with any thing short of the ideas is so strongly brought out that it cannot be ignored or forgotten; and in this way pupils are impressed with the value of words.

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