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Writing for well-being: How it could be a new way to teach the essay and resist AI

Diary-writers across history have expressed the sense of relief that writing from the heart can bring. Could English essays have the same be

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How a generation of consumptives defined 19th-century Romanticism | Aeon Ideas

Born of the urban squalor of the Industrial Revolution, tuberculosis defined Romanticism and its consumptive artists

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What makes John Keats’s ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ so enduringly powerful? | Aeon Videos

In his masterpiece, Keats contrasts the ephemerality of life with the eternal beauty of art to craft a poem of lasting power

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The danger of decadence is also its value. We need more of it | Aeon Essays

The Decadent movement taught that you should live your life with the greatest intensity – a dangerous and thrilling challenge

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Copy of Alternative to Reading Quizzes

BIG QUESTION: What do we do when students just are NOT doing the reading, night after night?

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Imagining History Through Sound

Sounds from the clack of a clog dance to the trill of the Rebel Yell can powerfully engage and challenge young thinkerss

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Making mistakes easy aids teacher–student relationship | BPS

New research points to the practical importance of a positive error climate in the classroom.

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Fear

by Charles Simic

Fear passes from man to man Unknowing, As one leaf passes its shudder To another.

All at once the whole tree is trembling, And there is no sign of the wind.

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James Camion McGuiggen in Aeon

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Robert Browning: “My Last Duchess” by Camille… | Poetry Foundation

A poet uses a punctuation mark to plot a crime.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley: “Ozymandias” by David Mikics | Poetry Foundation

A poem to outlast empires.

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Langston Hughes: “Harlem” by Scott Challener | Poetry Foundation

This short poem about dreams is one of the most influential poems of the 20th century.

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John Keats: “To Autumn” by Caitlin Kimball | Poetry Foundation

In Keats’s finest season, even the gnats are mourning.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: “Sonnets from the… | Poetry Foundation

A secret romance made (almost) public.

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“A poem is a construction of language that uses, tries to use everything that language can do to conjure to summon up something thats not quite knowable in any other way. ” – Adrienne Rich

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Using English for Academic Purposes: Information and Advice for Students in Higher Education