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On Not Betraying Poetry
- Pedagogy
- Duke University Press
- Volume 15, Issue 2, April 2015
- pp. 213-232
- Article
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Responding to evidence of a steep decline in the reading of poetry, this article advocates a set of broad principles for poetry teaching that address the aesthetic function and materiality of poetry, and argues for a dialectic relationship in the poetry classroom between thoughtful analysis and interpretive freedom.