Temple Smith

Introduction NICHOLAS BAGNALL We have come a long way since the teacher of English saw himself most of the time as an evangelist casting out original sin, with the great classics as his texts and draconian marking schemes his penances. At least some of us have. There are still teachers (and...

Foreword To be faced widi a collection of one's more or less fugitive pieces is, of necessity, a daunting experience. Articles written to meet a casual request, lectures transcribed from tapes, essays written as contributions to a controversy, introductions to volumes of plays, records of...