P. J. Shepherd

PREFACE A decade or so ago most of this Preface would have been devoted to marshalling arguments against grammar and kindred disciplines, and in favour of a more liberal and creative attitűdé to the teaching of English. Time has made this unnecessary. Many of the important ideas progressive...

A MODERN BESTIARY A Consideráble Speck (Microscopic) A speck that would have been beneath my sight On any but a paper sheet so white Set off across what I had written there. And I had idly poised my pen in air To stop it with a period of ink When something strange about it made me think. This was...