English Journal - Volume 48, Issue 9, 1959

The author, a former seaman, writes feelingly of the sea where “once again man comes face to face with his fundamental loneliness,” and refers to several wellknown novels and plays. Mr. Bluefarb teaches English at the senior high school and junior college in San Pedro, California.

“Are we teaching writing backward?” is the question posed in this article. No use to try to explaini n a headnote “metatextbook factor” or “creative unconscious,” which the author thinks is at the heart of the matter–you will have to read the article! Mr. Adler teaches at the George F. Baker High School, Tuxedo Park, New York.

Many teachers have recognized the need for a way of providing unity in the “outside reading” of students. Mr. Fidone, chairman of the English Department in the Bronxville, New York, High School, has gained such unity in his classes of able twelfth grade students through a series of thematic reading units. His themes and titles should be helpful to other teachers.

Sandburg is a good beginning for the “anti-poetic” students, the author maintains in this discussion of some major ideas in Sandburg’s poetry. Mr. Yatron is an assistant professor of English at the Delaware State College.