Dean’s address to College faculty

Paul H. Benson, Dean. September 12, 2008. Attending to Our Faculties. 1. Introduction. In a recent review of Jay Parini’s latest book, Why Poetry Matters (Yale, 2008), Denis Donoghue cites Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s claim that poetry has the property of “exciting a more continuous and equal attention than the language of prose aims at” (italics added; Biographia Literaria [1817]). ................
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