Teaching Life: Letters from a Life in Literature

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181 i n d e x à Kempis, Thomas, 167 absences, 59–60 Adam Bede (George Eliot), 122 Adams, Abigail, 39 Adams, John, 39 administrators, 2–4, 7–8, 9–10 Advanced Rhetoric class, 40 Aeschylus, 161 Altick, Richard D., 124 American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), 145 Amis, Kingsley, 97–98, 100, 103, 124–38; The Alteration, 130; Collected Short Stories, 132; Ending Up, 129; The Folks That Live on the Hill, 135; The Letters of Kingsley Amis, 137; Lucky Jim, 95, 126; Memoirs, 135; The Riverside Villas Murder, 128; Russian Hide-andSeek , 132–33 Amis, Martin, 54, 94, 137 Andersen, Hans Christian, 160 Angelou, Maya, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 74–75 Angry Young Men, 95 anxiety: of students, 14–15, 19, 34, 41, 60, 66, 73, 107–10, 166, 176; of teachers, 1–2, 10–11, 13, 17, 27, 30, 34, 124, 166, 169–72 Aristotle, 102 Ashbery, John, 95–96 attendance, 59–60 attention span, 62–64 attitudes toward education: of public, 19–21, 42–43, 46, 50, 53, 70, 72– 73, 76, 80, 93–94, 102–03, 109, 115–16, 142, 146, 148, 159–60, 173, 176; of students, 12, 15–20, 33–45, 58–64, 68, 70, 76, 93–94; of teachers, 1, 2–4, 8, 10–11, 13– 21, 23–31, 33–46, 53–54, 58–69, 109–13, 116, 120–21, 139–50, 168–74. See also resentment Atwood, Margaret, 161 Auden, W. H., 147; “September 1, 1939,” 52; “SEXT,” 143–44 authority, 30, 50–51, 61, 73 Bachelder, Frances H., 89, 108, 111– 14, 116, 144–45; “The Importance of Connecting,” 89; The Iron Gate, 89. See also Frances H. Salwak Bachelder, Frank, 72, 126, 111–13, 144–45 Bachelder, Gertrude, 39, 72, 126, 144 Bachelder, Myrtle, 145 Bailey, Paul, 83 Baldwin, James, 75 Barbara Pym: A Reference Guide (Dale Salwak), 84 Barnes, Julian, 100, 134 Barney, Patricia, 9 Barzun, Jacques, 6, 16, 33, 66–67, 168, 173; Teacher in America, 115 182 i n d e x Bayley, John, 84, 88, 95 Bechet, Sidney, 95 Beethoven, Ludwig von, 108, 112; Eroica Symphony, 154 Bellow, Saul, 27, 138 Beowulf, 74 Bible, 41, 50–51, 76, 139 biology, 31–32 Birkerts, Sven, The Gutenberg Elegies, 71 Blake, William, 19, 88, 115 Bloom, Allan, 71 Bloom, Harold, The Anxiety of Influence , 30; Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, 24 Bloomfield, Barry, Philip Larkin, A Bibliography 1933–1976, 97 books, 21, 38–41, 44, 61–62, 69–82, 86–94, 105, 114, 124, 127, 156, 160–61; importance to children, 20, 50, 71–72, 74–75, 77–79, 168. See also reading assignments Brahms, Johannes, 108 Braine, John, 85, 125, 130–31, 133 Brook, Peter, 69 Brown, Alistair, 112–14 Broyard, Anatole, Kafka Was the Rage, 78–79 Bruccoli, Matthew J., 124 Bucholz, Robert, A History of England from the Tudors to the Stuarts, 24 Buckley, William F., 127 Buddha, 52 Cambridge University (U.K.), 135 Capote, Truman, In Cold Blood, 65–66 Carnegie Hall, 28 Carthaginians, 53 Casals, Pablo, 56 Cecil, Lord David, 85 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 119, 125 Chekhov, Anton, 93 chemistry, 143 Chesterton, G. K., 174 Children’s Literature class, 16, 42, 50 choices, 58–69 Chopin, Frederic, 113 Christianity, 63, 76, 81, 104, 154–55, 161, 165–66 Christie, Agatha, 72 “Cinderella,” 42 civility, 1, 2–6, 10–11, 84 classroom atmosphere, 13, 59–60. See also tone of teachers Cliburn, Van, 165 CliffsNotes, 20, 65 Clowes, Jonathan, 136 committees, academic, 6–7 confidentiality, 3, 5 confluence, 64 conjuring, 96–98 connectedness, 1–11, 14–15, 18, 22–45, 46–57, 113–14, 169 Contemporary Literature, 129 Conquest, Robert, 130 Conrad, Joseph, 79 Cousins, Norman, 73, 80 Cronin, A. J., Keys of the Kingdom, 39 curiosity, 1, 14, 21 Dahl, Roald, Matilda, 75 Dante, Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, 16–18, 145 Dartmouth College, 27 Davidman, Joy, 122–23 Davies, Robertson, 79, 172 Dawes, Amy, 96 Dawes, Edwin A. “Eddie,” 96–100 De Angelis, Paul, 88 de Custine, Astolphe, 31 de Montaigne, Michel, 150 183 i n d e x death of a parent, 151–59. See also mortality death of a spouse, 93, 122–23. See also mortality Depression, 144 Dickens, Charles, 160; Great Expectations , 20 Dickinson, Emily, 19, 77, 90 Didion, Joan, 139 diploma, 110, 169 disabilities, 109–11 Dutton, E. P., 85 Earl of Chesterfield, 3 Eliot, George, Adam Bede, 122 Eliot, T. S., 95–6...