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Originally Posted by sunday green  god, we must have been on some shit syllabus, we didnt do any of that stuff
m kind of glad i didnt really enjoy most of the stff we had to read, cause being 'taught' literature is sort of hideous. i'll never forget skipping around in the woods behind our schoolacting out a midsummer nights dream with our hippy teacher. bet you can't do that shit anymore
i remember doing some bronte poetry swiftly followed by the good old war poets. now that was INSTENSE |
Haha, that image is all sorts of epic it is. I wish I had an unconventional bohemian-type teacher. Instead I had a smug old bag who seemed to think she was the Emily Dickinson of the teaching circuit
Ah yes, the good old war poets. They always seemed to have something to write about, didn't they... Dulce et Decorum Est became something of a creed in our class, given the teacher's enthusiasm.
Oh and in Classical Studies we did
Greek drama:
Euripides' Medea
King Oedipus
Prometheus Bound
Augustinian literature:
The poetry of Ovid, Horace, Virgil and Propertius
Livy's histories
That class was a v different environment than the English one, so I enjoyed it more. I hadn't had that much exposure to the classics prior to taking up the subject, so it did have a big influence on my reading habits in that it instilled a real love of anything ancient Greek in me and inspired me to read stories dealing with ancient mythology
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