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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition
Erich Auerbach
Born: November 9, 1892
Died: October 13, 1957 (aged 64)
Bio: Erich Auerbach was a philologist and comparative scholar and critic of literature.
Known for:
- Dante, Poet of the Secular World
- Scenes from the drama of European literature