Comments on: English Literature http://mssv.net/2008/01/17/english-literature/ Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:42:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Mark Thwaite http://mssv.net/2008/01/17/english-literature/comment-page-1/#comment-52561 Mark Thwaite Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:50:11 +0000 http://mssv.net/2008/01/17/english-literature/#comment-52561 I think this is similar to my experiences of Eng Lit pre-16. But I was good at it, had great teachers, and went on to do "A" level English regardless of having to read The Lord of the Flies (a book I still hate) for months and months on end ... And of all my formal education (after A levels I went on to university and then postgraduate studies) it is my English A level that I could not do without. After the hit and miss of pre-16 "reading", the A level taught me how to read properly: carefully, in depth, and with a consideration of the book's context ... it turned me on to stuff (TS Eliot and the modernists) that still thrill me to this day ... I think this is similar to my experiences of Eng Lit pre-16. But I was good at it, had great teachers, and went on to do “A” level English regardless of having to read The Lord of the Flies (a book I still hate) for months and months on end …

And of all my formal education (after A levels I went on to university and then postgraduate studies) it is my English A level that I could not do without.

After the hit and miss of pre-16 “reading”, the A level taught me how to read properly: carefully, in depth, and with a consideration of the book’s context … it turned me on to stuff (TS Eliot and the modernists) that still thrill me to this day …

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