The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage.
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.
Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order. He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.
A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.
In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
Science fiction and fantasy is a kind of literature that embodies the highest aspirations of the human race.
What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past.
For my part, I have worked all my life with eggs and embryos of frogs. Compared to other small animals, these have figured prominently in the world of literature.
Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.
I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.
I studied English literature in university, and then I went straight into radio.
My master's degree was in English literature.
My father is a poet. He's a literary giant of this country - writes in Hindi - and also quite unique because he has a Ph.D. in English Literature. He taught at Harvard University, which is one of the most prominent universities in the country.
I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.
I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.
I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien.
