Learning
The poems with no names
In the 1920s, a Cambridge lecturer took the names off poems and asked students of English to judge them. What came back helped change how literature is taught. Research and a bestselling book show how reading skill grows.
Major #16: English Language and LiteratureThe story: I. A. Richards (1920s). The book: How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster.
In this lesson
- Sheets of poems, and no names
- The failure that built a method
- What the research says
- The book: How to Read Literature Like a Professor
- What the evidence says about the book
- Where this comes from
- Try it today
- 4 questions to check yourself