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ERIC Number: EJ439151
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1992
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-8274
Why We Stop Reading Poetry.
Bugeja, Michael J.
English Journal, v81 n3 p32-42 Mar 1992
Describes an informal study which explored the reasons why students love poetry in the fourth grade and hate it by the time they are in high school or college. Blames the tenets of the New Criticism for the analytical approach which seems to turn away students. (PRA)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Literature Appreciation, Poetry, Student Attitudes, Surveys
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Literature Instruction; New Criticism