One mystery of standards is that English professors are no good at the English language, and linguistics professors have no understanding of literary linguistics and how to teach it. There have been a few exceptions—notably John Sinclair, the founding editor of COBUILD—but mostly these sinners are disgraceful. It matters because what we do is language based—even the quality of our perceptions. English is the dominant language and the treasure house of culture, but English is heavily parasitized—with atrocious commercial tests, and being badly mishandled by those who should be its guardians. The SAT is a dead end for words, grammar, and reading. It is also a dead end for verbal reasoning. Next they will be telling us that the elixir of life is to be found in an SAT perp manual. An intelligent person would put the COBUILD English Grammar down beside an SAT manual and compare the two. One is the best book for English, composed by John Sinclair, the most exceptional scholar of English. The other is parasitic trash composed by people who have an indelible record of superficiality and failure. COBUILD English Grammar has a wealth of real English examples. Result clauses: She was having great difficulty getting her car out, and so I had to move my car to let her out. Manner clauses: I put some water on my clothes to make it look as if I had been sweating. The section on such adverbial subordination is one of the best in this grammar. Students must have background knowledge in clause clusters or they will just be gaping at words instead of reading at all levels of the language. One of the best chapters in COBUILD English Grammar is eight, on adverbial subordination: time, condition, purpose, result, manner, etc. It would be invaluable to have an English Literary Grammar to depict how these subordinate clauses cluster. One of the most striking examples is clustering of result and manner, and also the occasional manner and result, in “The Scarlet Letter:” “The mother herself—as if the red ignominy were so deeply scorched into her brain, that all her conceptions assumed its form—had carefully wrought out the similitude; lavishing many hours of morbid ingenuity, to create an analogy between the object of her affection, and the emblem of her guilt and torture.” It is not just the pleasure of discovery that motivates analysis of pattern. It is also important for cognition, for deepening and strengthening perception.

High School and Undergraduate English by Clayton Burns PhD Professor James Engell of Harvard English, an email to me: “Over my more than forty years of teaching I’ve found students at all levels increasingly untouched by any formal study of grammar, rhetoric, imagery, or verbal patterns.” This is not an exclusive curriculum. COBUILD Intermediate English Grammar, COBUILD English Grammar, OALD App, Merriam-Webster online PCDE Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition; OWC Oxford World’s Classics 1. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) 2. Pride and Prejudice (PCDE) 3. The Great Gatsby (PCDE) 4. Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Annotated Edition (Penguin Modern Classics, Taylor); 1984: The Graphic Novel. Nesti 5. Gwendolen Harleth. Eliot (ed. Clayton Burns PhD from Daniel Deronda); Bradley Headstone. Dickens (ed. Clayton Burns PhD from Our Mutual Friend) 6. A Streetcar Named Desire 7. The Scarlet Letter (exclude The Custom-House) (PCDE) 8. The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Shorter Eighth Edition 9. Heart of Darkness (PCDE), The Secret Sharer 10. Romeo and Juliet (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Arden) 11. Macbeth (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Arden) 12. Poems, Poets, Poetry. Vendler 13. Dubliners (PCDE) 14. Beloved. Morrison 15. Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) 16. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Joyce (PCDE) 17. Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries. Vendler 18. The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition); Daisy Miller; The Beast in the Jungle 19. The Custom of the Country. Wharton (PCDE); Roman Fever (Penguin, 2027) 20. Great Expectations (OWC) 21. The Age of Innocence. Wharton (Penguin Vitae) 22. The Portrait of a Lady (OWC) 23. Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Revised Arden) 24. Othello (Cambridge School Shakespeare and New Cambridge) 25. King Lear (Cambridge School Shakespeare) and The Tragedy of King Lear (New Cambridge) Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Poetry Foundation): 1, 15, 18, 30, 33, 60, 64, 65, 73, 97, 98, 104, 116, 129, 130 Emily Dickinson (Poetry Foundation): 1. How many times these low feet staggered - 2. That after Horror - that 'twas us - 3. Civilization - spurns - the Leopard! 4. There's a certain Slant of light, 5. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, 6. It was not Death, for I stood up, 7. Safe in their Alabaster Chambers - 8. Because I could not stop for Death - 9. The Angle of a Landscape - 10. I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - 11. The Tint I cannot take - is best - 12. The Way I read a Letter's - this - 13. My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - 14. The Wind begun to rock the Grass 15. A narrow Fellow in the Grass 16. Essential Oils - are wrung - Vendler’s Poems, Poets, Poetry and Poetry Foundation: Blake: The Sick Rose, The Tyger, London Wordsworth: A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, Tintern Abbey, Ode: Intimations of Immortality Keats: Ode to a Nightingale, On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Brontë: Remembrance Browning: My Last Duchess Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est Frost: ‘Out, Out—‘ (Audio at Poetry Foundation), (Speech: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow at Poetry Foundation), The Road Not Taken, After Apple-Picking, Design Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole, Sailing to Byzantium, The Second Coming Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Plath: Daddy Lowell: Skunk Hour Milton: Paradise Lost. Book IX (Penguin Classics) In novellas James and Tolstoy most skilled. Read out loud. James: The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition), The Beast in the Jungle, The Jolly Corner. Tolstoy: Hadji Murat. Pevear (Lermontov’s The Dream. Nabokov), The Kreutzer Sonata. Conrad: Heart of Darkness (PCDE). Joyce: The Dead. Kafka: The Metamorphosis. Bernofsky. Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (OWC  and Penguin Classics). Dickens: Master Bradley Headstone. Clayton Burns PhD (Our Mutual Friend).

The SAT is a dead end for words, grammar, and reading. It is also a dead end for verbal reasoning. Next they will be telling us that the elixir of life is to be found in an SAT perp manual. An intelligent person would put the COBUILD English Grammar down beside an SAT manual and compare the two. One is the best book for English, composed by John Sinclair, the most exceptional scholar of English. The other is parasitic trash composed by people who have an indelible record of superficiality and failure. COBUILD English Grammar has a wealth of real English examples. Result clauses: She was having great difficulty getting her car out, and so I had to move my car to let her out. Manner clauses: I put some water on my clothes to make it look as if I had been sweating. The section on such adverbial subordination is one of the best in this grammar. Students must have background knowledge in clause clusters or they will just be gaping at words instead of reading at all levels of the language. One of the best chapters in COBUILD English Grammar is eight, on adverbial subordination: time, condition, purpose, result, manner, etc. It would be invaluable to have an English Literary Grammar to depict how these subordinate clauses cluster. One of the most striking examples is clustering of result and manner, and also the occasional manner and result, in “The Scarlet Letter:” “The mother herself—as if the red ignominy were so deeply scorched into her brain, that all her conceptions assumed its form—had carefully wrought out the similitude; lavishing many hours of morbid ingenuity, to create an analogy between the object of her affection, and the emblem of her guilt and torture.” It is not just the pleasure of discovery that motivates analysis of pattern. It is also important for cognition, for deepening and strengthening perception. You will have noticed the periphrastic past modal “had to move” in the result clauses example. Periphrastic Past Modals: Based on Emily Dickinson’s “How many times these low feet staggered - “ (Poetry Foundation): How many times these low feet staggered - Only the soldered mouth can tell - Try - can you stir the awful rivet - Try - can you lift the hasps of steel! Stroke the cool forehead - hot so often - Lift - if you care - the listless hair - Handle the adamantine fingers Never a thimble - more - shall wear - Buzz the dull flies - on the chamber window - Brave - shines the sun through the freckled pane - Fearless - the cobweb swings from the ceiling - Indolent Housewife - in Daisies - lain! 1. past modal: had to work. The housewife had to work extremely hard just to stay in place. 2. past progressive: was having to work. She was having to work so hard that she felt as if she couldn’t go on. 3. present perfect: has had to work. The housewife has had to work with fierce intensity to master her household projects. 4. past perfect: had had to work. She had never had to work so doggedly as when cleaning the house. 5. modal past perfect: would have had to work. She would have had to work all night to make everything immaculate. 6. future in the past: would have to work. The housewife knew she would have to work alone to avoid distraction. 7. infinitive: to have to work. She didn’t want to have to work without a break. 8. perfect infinitive: to have had to work. She seemed to have had to work for long hours without a break. 9. -ing: having to work. She resented having to work in the heat of the day. 10. perfect -ing: having had to work. Having had to work without supervision, she had become independent. According to Dean Amanda Claybaugh of Harvard, her students were tied up in knots by the rather easy “The Scarlet Letter.” There is no excuse for the systematic American failure to teach English grammar. Even worse is the failure even to understand what grammar is. Imagining that the SAT teaches grammar is not sensible.

High School and Undergraduate English by Clayton Burns PhD Professor James Engell of Harvard English, an email to me: “Over my more than forty years of teaching I’ve found students at all levels increasingly untouched by any formal study of grammar, rhetoric, imagery, or verbal patterns.” This is not an exclusive curriculum. COBUILD Intermediate English Grammar, COBUILD English Grammar, OALD App, Merriam-Webster online PCDE Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition; OWC Oxford World’s Classics 1. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) 2. Pride and Prejudice (PCDE) 3. The Great Gatsby (PCDE) 4. Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Annotated Edition (Penguin Modern Classics, Taylor); 1984: The Graphic Novel. Nesti 5. Gwendolen Harleth. Eliot (ed. Clayton Burns PhD from Daniel Deronda); Bradley Headstone. Dickens (ed. Clayton Burns PhD from Our Mutual Friend) 6. A Streetcar Named Desire 7. The Scarlet Letter (exclude The Custom-House) (PCDE) 8. The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Shorter Eighth Edition 9. Heart of Darkness (PCDE), The Secret Sharer 10. Romeo and Juliet (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Arden) 11. Macbeth (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Arden) 12. Poems, Poets, Poetry. Vendler 13. Dubliners (PCDE) 14. Beloved. Morrison 15. Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) 16. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Joyce (PCDE) 17. Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries. Vendler 18. The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition); Daisy Miller; The Beast in the Jungle 19. The Custom of the Country. Wharton (PCDE); Roman Fever (Penguin, 2027) 20. Great Expectations (OWC) 21. The Age of Innocence. Wharton (Penguin Vitae) 22. The Portrait of a Lady (OWC) 23. Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Revised Arden) 24. Othello (Cambridge School Shakespeare and New Cambridge) 25. King Lear (Cambridge School Shakespeare) and The Tragedy of King Lear (New Cambridge) Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Poetry Foundation): 1, 15, 18, 30, 33, 60, 64, 65, 73, 97, 98, 104, 116, 129, 130 Emily Dickinson (Poetry Foundation): 1. How many times these low feet staggered - 2. That after Horror - that 'twas us - 3. Civilization - spurns - the Leopard! 4. There's a certain Slant of light, 5. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, 6. It was not Death, for I stood up, 7. Safe in their Alabaster Chambers - 8. Because I could not stop for Death - 9. The Angle of a Landscape - 10. I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - 11. The Tint I cannot take - is best - 12. The Way I read a Letter's - this - 13. My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - 14. The Wind begun to rock the Grass 15. A narrow Fellow in the Grass 16. Essential Oils - are wrung - Vendler’s Poems, Poets, Poetry and Poetry Foundation: Blake: The Sick Rose, The Tyger, London Wordsworth: A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, Tintern Abbey, Ode: Intimations of Immortality Keats: Ode to a Nightingale, On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Brontë: Remembrance Browning: My Last Duchess Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est Frost: ‘Out, Out—‘ (Audio at Poetry Foundation), (Speech: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow at Poetry Foundation), The Road Not Taken, After Apple-Picking, Design Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole, Sailing to Byzantium, The Second Coming Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Plath: Daddy Lowell: Skunk Hour Milton: Paradise Lost. Book IX (Penguin Classics) In novellas James and Tolstoy most skilled. Read out loud. James: The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition), The Beast in the Jungle, The Jolly Corner. Tolstoy: Hadji Murat. Pevear (Lermontov’s The Dream. Nabokov), The Kreutzer Sonata. Conrad: Heart of Darkness (PCDE). Joyce: The Dead. Kafka: The Metamorphosis. Bernofsky. Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (OWC  and Penguin Classics). Dickens: Master Bradley Headstone. Clayton Burns PhD (Our Mutual Friend).

High School and Undergraduate English by Clayton Burns PhD Professor James Engell of Harvard English, an email to me: “Over my more than forty years of teaching I’ve found students at all levels increasingly untouched by any formal study of grammar, rhetoric, imagery, or verbal patterns.” This is not an exclusive curriculum. COBUILD Intermediate English Grammar, COBUILD English Grammar, OALD App, Merriam-Webster online PCDE Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition; OWC Oxford World’s Classics 1. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) 2. Pride and Prejudice (PCDE) 3. The Great Gatsby (PCDE) 4. Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Annotated Edition (Penguin Modern Classics, Taylor); 1984: The Graphic Novel. Nesti 5. Gwendolen Harleth. Eliot (ed. Clayton Burns PhD from Daniel Deronda); Bradley Headstone. Dickens (ed. Clayton Burns PhD from Our Mutual Friend) 6. A Streetcar Named Desire 7. The Scarlet Letter (exclude The Custom-House) (PCDE) 8. The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Shorter Eighth Edition 9. Heart of Darkness (PCDE), The Secret Sharer 10. Romeo and Juliet (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Arden) 11. Macbeth (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Arden) 12. Poems, Poets, Poetry. Vendler 13. Dubliners (PCDE) 14. Beloved. Morrison 15. Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) 16. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Joyce (PCDE) 17. Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries. Vendler 18. The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition); Daisy Miller; The Beast in the Jungle 19. The Custom of the Country. Wharton (PCDE); Roman Fever (Penguin, 2027) 20. Great Expectations (OWC) 21. The Age of Innocence. Wharton (Penguin Vitae) 22. The Portrait of a Lady (OWC) 23. Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Revised Arden) 24. Othello (Cambridge School Shakespeare and New Cambridge) 25. King Lear (Cambridge School Shakespeare) and The Tragedy of King Lear (New Cambridge) Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Poetry Foundation): 1, 15, 18, 30, 33, 60, 64, 65, 73, 97, 98, 104, 116, 129, 130 Emily Dickinson (Poetry Foundation): 1. How many times these low feet staggered - 2. That after Horror - that 'twas us - 3. Civilization - spurns - the Leopard! 4. There's a certain Slant of light, 5. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, 6. It was not Death, for I stood up, 7. Safe in their Alabaster Chambers - 8. Because I could not stop for Death - 9. The Angle of a Landscape - 10. I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - 11. The Tint I cannot take - is best - 12. The Way I read a Letter's - this - 13. My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - 14. The Wind begun to rock the Grass 15. A narrow Fellow in the Grass 16. Essential Oils - are wrung - Vendler’s Poems, Poets, Poetry and Poetry Foundation: Blake: The Sick Rose, The Tyger, London Wordsworth: A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, Tintern Abbey, Ode: Intimations of Immortality Keats: Ode to a Nightingale, On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Brontë: Remembrance Browning: My Last Duchess Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est Frost: ‘Out, Out—‘ (Audio at Poetry Foundation), (Speech: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow at Poetry Foundation), The Road Not Taken, After Apple-Picking, Design Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole, Sailing to Byzantium, The Second Coming Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Plath: Daddy Lowell: Skunk Hour Milton: Paradise Lost. Book IX (Penguin Classics) In novellas James and Tolstoy most skilled. Read out loud. James: The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition), The Beast in the Jungle, The Jolly Corner. Tolstoy: Hadji Murat. Pevear (Lermontov’s The Dream. Nabokov), The Kreutzer Sonata. Conrad: Heart of Darkness (PCDE). Joyce: The Dead. Kafka: The Metamorphosis. Bernofsky. Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (OWC  and Penguin Classics). Dickens: Master Bradley Headstone. Clayton Burns PhD (Our Mutual Friend).

COBUILD English Grammar has a wealth of real English examples. Result clauses: She was having great difficulty getting her car out, and so I had to move my car to let her out. Manner clauses: I put some water on my clothes to make it look as if I had been sweating. The section on such adverbial subordination is one of the best in this grammar. Students must have background knowledge in clause clusters or they will just be gaping at words instead of reading at all levels of the language. One of the best chapters in COBUILD English Grammar is eight, on adverbial subordination: time, condition, purpose, result, manner, etc. It would be invaluable to have an English Literary Grammar to depict how these subordinate clauses cluster. One of the most striking examples is clustering of result and manner, and also the occasional manner and result, in “The Scarlet Letter:” “The mother herself—as if the red ignominy were so deeply scorched into her brain, that all her conceptions assumed its form—had carefully wrought out the similitude; lavishing many hours of morbid ingenuity, to create an analogy between the object of her affection, and the emblem of her guilt and torture.” It is not just the pleasure of discovery that motivates analysis of pattern. It is also important for cognition, for deepening and strengthening perception. You will have noticed the periphrastic past modal “had to move” in the result clauses example. Periphrastic Past Modals: Based on Emily Dickinson’s “How many times these low feet staggered - “ (Poetry Foundation): How many times these low feet staggered - Only the soldered mouth can tell - Try - can you stir the awful rivet - Try - can you lift the hasps of steel! Stroke the cool forehead - hot so often - Lift - if you care - the listless hair - Handle the adamantine fingers Never a thimble - more - shall wear - Buzz the dull flies - on the chamber window - Brave - shines the sun through the freckled pane - Fearless - the cobweb swings from the ceiling - Indolent Housewife - in Daisies - lain! 1. past modal: had to work. The housewife had to work extremely hard just to stay in place. 2. past progressive: was having to work. She was having to work so hard that she felt as if she couldn’t go on. 3. present perfect: has had to work. The housewife has had to work with fierce intensity to master her household projects. 4. past perfect: had had to work. She had never had to work so doggedly as when cleaning the house. 5. modal past perfect: would have had to work. She would have had to work all night to make everything immaculate. 6. future in the past: would have to work. The housewife knew she would have to work alone to avoid distraction. 7. infinitive: to have to work. She didn’t want to have to work without a break. 8. perfect infinitive: to have had to work. She seemed to have had to work for long hours without a break. 9. -ing: having to work. She resented having to work in the heat of the day. 10. perfect -ing: having had to work. Having had to work without supervision, she had become independent. According to Dean Amanda Claybaugh of Harvard, her students were tied up in knots by the rather easy “The Scarlet Letter.” There is no excuse for the systematic American failure to teach English grammar. Even worse is the failure even to understand what grammar is. Imagining that the SAT teaches grammar is not sensible.

This is all noise that has no meaning. Chronicle is chronically guilty of getting absorbed in noise and avoiding fundamentals. If Chronicle changes its ways, I’ll subscribe again. If it does not, I will not. Chronicle does not have good reading skills. Chronicle either does not read the comments or does not understand them. Let’s have a comparison of the COBUILD English Grammar and an SAT prep manual before we stampede into a dead end. What is a corpus grammar?

Anything to do with David Coleman is shit. Of all the heroic labourers in the fields of English language and literature— The sensational John Sinclair, founding editor of COBUILD; The exquisite miniaturist Emily Dickinson; The exemplary fictional word artist Henry James— David Coleman is a nothing, a parasitic drag on English language and literature and education. Compare the COBUILD English Grammar with a wretched SAT prep manual. That is the primary task of media and university presidents in America right now. Berkeley Math—Quit stampeding universities into an arid dead end.

High School and Undergraduate English by Clayton Burns PhD Professor James Engell of Harvard English, an email to me: “Over my more than forty years of teaching I’ve found students at all levels increasingly untouched by any formal study of grammar, rhetoric, imagery, or verbal patterns.” This is not an exclusive curriculum. COBUILD Intermediate English Grammar, COBUILD English Grammar, OALD App, Merriam-Webster online PCDE Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition; OWC Oxford World’s Classics 1. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) 2. Pride and Prejudice (PCDE) 3. The Great Gatsby (PCDE) 4. Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Annotated Edition (Penguin Modern Classics, Taylor); 1984: The Graphic Novel. Nesti 5. Gwendolen Harleth. Eliot (ed. Clayton Burns PhD from Daniel Deronda); Bradley Headstone. Dickens (ed. Clayton Burns PhD from Our Mutual Friend) 6. A Streetcar Named Desire 7. The Scarlet Letter (exclude The Custom-House) (PCDE) 8. The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Shorter Eighth Edition 9. Heart of Darkness (PCDE), The Secret Sharer 10. Romeo and Juliet (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Arden) 11. Macbeth (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Arden) 12. Poems, Poets, Poetry. Vendler 13. Dubliners (PCDE) 14. Beloved. Morrison 15. Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) 16. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Joyce (PCDE) 17. Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries. Vendler 18. The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition); Daisy Miller; The Beast in the Jungle 19. The Custom of the Country. Wharton (PCDE); Roman Fever (Penguin, 2027) 20. Great Expectations (OWC) 21. The Age of Innocence. Wharton (Penguin Vitae) 22. The Portrait of a Lady (OWC) 23. Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Revised Arden) 24. Othello (Cambridge School Shakespeare and New Cambridge) 25. King Lear (Cambridge School Shakespeare) and The Tragedy of King Lear (New Cambridge) Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Poetry Foundation): 1, 15, 18, 30, 33, 60, 64, 65, 73, 97, 98, 104, 116, 129, 130 Emily Dickinson (Poetry Foundation): 1. How many times these low feet staggered - 2. That after Horror - that 'twas us - 3. Civilization - spurns - the Leopard! 4. There's a certain Slant of light, 5. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, 6. It was not Death, for I stood up, 7. Safe in their Alabaster Chambers - 8. Because I could not stop for Death - 9. The Angle of a Landscape - 10. I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - 11. The Tint I cannot take - is best - 12. The Way I read a Letter's - this - 13. My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - 14. The Wind begun to rock the Grass 15. A narrow Fellow in the Grass 16. Essential Oils - are wrung - Vendler’s Poems, Poets, Poetry and Poetry Foundation: Blake: The Sick Rose, The Tyger, London Wordsworth: A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, Tintern Abbey, Ode: Intimations of Immortality Keats: Ode to a Nightingale, On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Brontë: Remembrance Browning: My Last Duchess Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est Frost: ‘Out, Out—‘ (Audio at Poetry Foundation), (Speech: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow at Poetry Foundation), The Road Not Taken, After Apple-Picking, Design Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole, Sailing to Byzantium, The Second Coming Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Plath: Daddy Lowell: Skunk Hour Milton: Paradise Lost. Book IX (Penguin Classics) In novellas James and Tolstoy most skilled. Read out loud. James: The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition), The Beast in the Jungle, The Jolly Corner. Tolstoy: Hadji Murat. Pevear (Lermontov’s The Dream. Nabokov), The Kreutzer Sonata. Conrad: Heart of Darkness (PCDE). Joyce: The Dead. Kafka: The Metamorphosis. Bernofsky. Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (OWC  and Penguin Classics). Dickens: Master Bradley Headstone. Clayton Burns PhD (Our Mutual Friend).

Just adopt my curriculum. There are no consulting fees. I have spent decades on this. There is no possibility of designing a better curriculum. High School and Undergraduate English by Clayton Burns PhD Professor James Engell of Harvard English, an email to me: “Over my more than forty years of teaching I’ve found students at all levels increasingly untouched by any formal study of grammar, rhetoric, imagery, or verbal patterns.” This is not an exclusive curriculum. COBUILD Intermediate English Grammar, COBUILD English Grammar, OALD App, Merriam-Webster online PCDE Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition; OWC Oxford World’s Classics 1. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) 2. Pride and Prejudice (PCDE) 3. The Great Gatsby (PCDE) 4. Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Annotated Edition (Penguin Modern Classics, Taylor); 1984: The Graphic Novel. Nesti 5. Gwendolen Harleth. Eliot (ed. Clayton Burns PhD from Daniel Deronda); Bradley Headstone. Dickens (ed. Clayton Burns PhD from Our Mutual Friend) 6. A Streetcar Named Desire 7. The Scarlet Letter (exclude The Custom-House) (PCDE) 8. The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Shorter Eighth Edition 9. Heart of Darkness (PCDE), The Secret Sharer 10. Romeo and Juliet (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Arden) 11. Macbeth (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Arden) 12. Poems, Poets, Poetry. Vendler 13. Dubliners (PCDE) 14. Beloved. Morrison 15. Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) 16. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Joyce (PCDE) 17. Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries. Vendler 18. The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition); Daisy Miller; The Beast in the Jungle 19. The Custom of the Country. Wharton (PCDE); Roman Fever (Penguin, 2027) 20. Great Expectations (OWC) 21. The Age of Innocence. Wharton (Penguin Vitae) 22. The Portrait of a Lady (OWC) 23. Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Revised Arden) 24. Othello (Cambridge School Shakespeare and New Cambridge) 25. King Lear (Cambridge School Shakespeare) and The Tragedy of King Lear (New Cambridge) Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Poetry Foundation): 1, 15, 18, 30, 33, 60, 64, 65, 73, 97, 98, 104, 116, 129, 130 Emily Dickinson (Poetry Foundation): 1. How many times these low feet staggered - 2. That after Horror - that 'twas us - 3. Civilization - spurns - the Leopard! 4. There's a certain Slant of light, 5. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, 6. It was not Death, for I stood up, 7. Safe in their Alabaster Chambers - 8. Because I could not stop for Death - 9. The Angle of a Landscape - 10. I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - 11. The Tint I cannot take - is best - 12. The Way I read a Letter's - this - 13. My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - 14. The Wind begun to rock the Grass 15. A narrow Fellow in the Grass 16. Essential Oils - are wrung - Vendler’s Poems, Poets, Poetry and Poetry Foundation: Blake: The Sick Rose, The Tyger, London Wordsworth: A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, Tintern Abbey, Ode: Intimations of Immortality Keats: Ode to a Nightingale, On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Brontë: Remembrance Browning: My Last Duchess Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est Frost: ‘Out, Out—‘ (Audio at Poetry Foundation), (Speech: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow at Poetry Foundation), The Road Not Taken, After Apple-Picking, Design Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole, Sailing to Byzantium, The Second Coming Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Plath: Daddy Lowell: Skunk Hour Milton: Paradise Lost. Book IX (Penguin Classics) In novellas James and Tolstoy most skilled. Read out loud. James: The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition), The Beast in the Jungle, The Jolly Corner. Tolstoy: Hadji Murat. Pevear (Lermontov’s The Dream. Nabokov), The Kreutzer Sonata. Conrad: Heart of Darkness (PCDE). Joyce: The Dead. Kafka: The Metamorphosis. Bernofsky. Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (OWC  and Penguin Classics). Dickens: Master Bradley Headstone. Clayton Burns PhD (Our Mutual Friend).

It is not just a demographic cuff. It is just as seriously if not more so the brutal ignorance in universities. UC is trying to bring an end to human culture. High School and Undergraduate English by Clayton Burns PhD Professor James Engell of Harvard English, an email to me: “Over my more than forty years of teaching I’ve found students at all levels increasingly untouched by any formal study of grammar, rhetoric, imagery, or verbal patterns.” This is not an exclusive curriculum. COBUILD Intermediate English Grammar, COBUILD English Grammar, OALD App, Merriam-Webster online PCDE Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition; OWC Oxford World’s Classics 1. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) 2. Pride and Prejudice (PCDE) 3. The Great Gatsby (PCDE) 4. Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Annotated Edition (Penguin Modern Classics, Taylor); 1984: The Graphic Novel. Nesti 5. Gwendolen Harleth. Eliot (ed. Clayton Burns PhD from Daniel Deronda); Bradley Headstone. Dickens (ed. Clayton Burns PhD from Our Mutual Friend) 6. A Streetcar Named Desire 7. The Scarlet Letter (exclude The Custom-House) (PCDE) 8. The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Shorter Eighth Edition 9. Heart of Darkness (PCDE), The Secret Sharer 10. Romeo and Juliet (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Arden) 11. Macbeth (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Arden) 12. Poems, Poets, Poetry. Vendler 13. Dubliners (PCDE) 14. Beloved. Morrison 15. Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) 16. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Joyce (PCDE) 17. Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries. Vendler 18. The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition); Daisy Miller; The Beast in the Jungle 19. The Custom of the Country. Wharton (PCDE); Roman Fever (Penguin, 2027) 20. Great Expectations (OWC) 21. The Age of Innocence. Wharton (Penguin Vitae) 22. The Portrait of a Lady (OWC) 23. Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Revised Arden) 24. Othello (Cambridge School Shakespeare and New Cambridge) 25. King Lear (Cambridge School Shakespeare) and The Tragedy of King Lear (New Cambridge) Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Poetry Foundation): 1, 15, 18, 30, 33, 60, 64, 65, 73, 97, 98, 104, 116, 129, 130 Emily Dickinson (Poetry Foundation): 1. How many times these low feet staggered - 2. That after Horror - that 'twas us - 3. Civilization - spurns - the Leopard! 4. There's a certain Slant of light, 5. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, 6. It was not Death, for I stood up, 7. Safe in their Alabaster Chambers - 8. Because I could not stop for Death - 9. The Angle of a Landscape - 10. I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - 11. The Tint I cannot take - is best - 12. The Way I read a Letter's - this - 13. My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - 14. The Wind begun to rock the Grass 15. A narrow Fellow in the Grass 16. Essential Oils - are wrung - Vendler’s Poems, Poets, Poetry and Poetry Foundation: Blake: The Sick Rose, The Tyger, London Wordsworth: A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, Tintern Abbey, Ode: Intimations of Immortality Keats: Ode to a Nightingale, On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Brontë: Remembrance Browning: My Last Duchess Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est Frost: ‘Out, Out—‘ (Audio at Poetry Foundation), (Speech: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow at Poetry Foundation), The Road Not Taken, After Apple-Picking, Design Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole, Sailing to Byzantium, The Second Coming Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Plath: Daddy Lowell: Skunk Hour Milton: Paradise Lost. Book IX (Penguin Classics) In novellas James and Tolstoy most skilled. Read out loud. James: The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition), The Beast in the Jungle, The Jolly Corner. Tolstoy: Hadji Murat. Pevear (Lermontov’s The Dream. Nabokov), The Kreutzer Sonata. Conrad: Heart of Darkness (PCDE). Joyce: The Dead. Kafka: The Metamorphosis. Bernofsky. Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (OWC  and Penguin Classics). Dickens: Master Bradley Headstone. Clayton Burns PhD (Our Mutual Friend).

Inferior trash of America. They resist change. High School and Undergraduate English by Clayton Burns PhD Professor James Engell of Harvard English, an email to me: “Over my more than forty years of teaching I’ve found students at all levels increasingly untouched by any formal study of grammar, rhetoric, imagery, or verbal patterns.” This is not an exclusive curriculum. COBUILD Intermediate English Grammar, COBUILD English Grammar, OALD App, Merriam-Webster online PCDE Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition; OWC Oxford World’s Classics 1. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) 2. Pride and Prejudice (PCDE) 3. The Great Gatsby (PCDE) 4. Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Annotated Edition (Penguin Modern Classics, Taylor); 1984: The Graphic Novel. Nesti 5. Gwendolen Harleth. Eliot (ed. Clayton Burns PhD from Daniel Deronda); Bradley Headstone. Dickens (ed. Clayton Burns PhD from Our Mutual Friend) 6. A Streetcar Named Desire 7. The Scarlet Letter (exclude The Custom-House) (PCDE) 8. The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Shorter Eighth Edition 9. Heart of Darkness (PCDE), The Secret Sharer 10. Romeo and Juliet (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Arden) 11. Macbeth (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Arden) 12. Poems, Poets, Poetry. Vendler 13. Dubliners (PCDE) 14. Beloved. Morrison 15. Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) 16. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Joyce (PCDE) 17. Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries. Vendler 18. The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition); Daisy Miller; The Beast in the Jungle 19. The Custom of the Country. Wharton (PCDE); Roman Fever (Penguin, 2027) 20. Great Expectations (OWC) 21. The Age of Innocence. Wharton (Penguin Vitae) 22. The Portrait of a Lady (OWC) 23. Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Revised Arden) 24. Othello (Cambridge School Shakespeare and New Cambridge) 25. King Lear (Cambridge School Shakespeare) and The Tragedy of King Lear (New Cambridge) Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Poetry Foundation): 1, 15, 18, 30, 33, 60, 64, 65, 73, 97, 98, 104, 116, 129, 130 Emily Dickinson (Poetry Foundation): 1. How many times these low feet staggered - 2. That after Horror - that 'twas us - 3. Civilization - spurns - the Leopard! 4. There's a certain Slant of light, 5. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, 6. It was not Death, for I stood up, 7. Safe in their Alabaster Chambers - 8. Because I could not stop for Death - 9. The Angle of a Landscape - 10. I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - 11. The Tint I cannot take - is best - 12. The Way I read a Letter's - this - 13. My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - 14. The Wind begun to rock the Grass 15. A narrow Fellow in the Grass 16. Essential Oils - are wrung - Vendler’s Poems, Poets, Poetry and Poetry Foundation: Blake: The Sick Rose, The Tyger, London Wordsworth: A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, Tintern Abbey, Ode: Intimations of Immortality Keats: Ode to a Nightingale, On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Brontë: Remembrance Browning: My Last Duchess Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est Frost: ‘Out, Out—‘ (Audio at Poetry Foundation), (Speech: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow at Poetry Foundation), The Road Not Taken, After Apple-Picking, Design Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole, Sailing to Byzantium, The Second Coming Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Plath: Daddy Lowell: Skunk Hour Milton: Paradise Lost. Book IX (Penguin Classics) In novellas James and Tolstoy most skilled. Read out loud. James: The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition), The Beast in the Jungle, The Jolly Corner. Tolstoy: Hadji Murat. Pevear (Lermontov’s The Dream. Nabokov), The Kreutzer Sonata. Conrad: Heart of Darkness (PCDE). Joyce: The Dead. Kafka: The Metamorphosis. Bernofsky. Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (OWC  and Penguin Classics). Dickens: Master Bradley Headstone. Clayton Burns PhD (Our Mutual Friend).

The brutality of ignorance. High School and Undergraduate English by Clayton Burns PhD Professor James Engell of Harvard English, an email to me: “Over my more than forty years of teaching I’ve found students at all levels increasingly untouched by any formal study of grammar, rhetoric, imagery, or verbal patterns.” This is not an exclusive curriculum. COBUILD Intermediate English Grammar, COBUILD English Grammar, OALD App, Merriam-Webster online PCDE Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition; OWC Oxford World’s Classics 1. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) 2. Pride and Prejudice (PCDE) 3. The Great Gatsby (PCDE) 4. Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Annotated Edition (Penguin Modern Classics, Taylor); 1984: The Graphic Novel. Nesti 5. Gwendolen Harleth. Eliot (ed. Clayton Burns PhD from Daniel Deronda); Bradley Headstone. Dickens (ed. Clayton Burns PhD from Our Mutual Friend) 6. A Streetcar Named Desire 7. The Scarlet Letter (exclude The Custom-House) (PCDE) 8. The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Shorter Eighth Edition 9. Heart of Darkness (PCDE), The Secret Sharer 10. Romeo and Juliet (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Arden) 11. Macbeth (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Arden) 12. Poems, Poets, Poetry. Vendler 13. Dubliners (PCDE) 14. Beloved. Morrison 15. Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) 16. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Joyce (PCDE) 17. Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries. Vendler 18. The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition); Daisy Miller; The Beast in the Jungle 19. The Custom of the Country. Wharton (PCDE); Roman Fever (Penguin, 2027) 20. Great Expectations (OWC) 21. The Age of Innocence. Wharton (Penguin Vitae) 22. The Portrait of a Lady (OWC) 23. Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Revised Arden) 24. Othello (Cambridge School Shakespeare and New Cambridge) 25. King Lear (Cambridge School Shakespeare) and The Tragedy of King Lear (New Cambridge) Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Poetry Foundation): 1, 15, 18, 30, 33, 60, 64, 65, 73, 97, 98, 104, 116, 129, 130 Emily Dickinson (Poetry Foundation): 1. How many times these low feet staggered - 2. That after Horror - that 'twas us - 3. Civilization - spurns - the Leopard! 4. There's a certain Slant of light, 5. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, 6. It was not Death, for I stood up, 7. Safe in their Alabaster Chambers - 8. Because I could not stop for Death - 9. The Angle of a Landscape - 10. I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - 11. The Tint I cannot take - is best - 12. The Way I read a Letter's - this - 13. My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - 14. The Wind begun to rock the Grass 15. A narrow Fellow in the Grass 16. Essential Oils - are wrung - Vendler’s Poems, Poets, Poetry and Poetry Foundation: Blake: The Sick Rose, The Tyger, London Wordsworth: A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, Tintern Abbey, Ode: Intimations of Immortality Keats: Ode to a Nightingale, On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Brontë: Remembrance Browning: My Last Duchess Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est Frost: ‘Out, Out—‘ (Audio at Poetry Foundation), (Speech: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow at Poetry Foundation), The Road Not Taken, After Apple-Picking, Design Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole, Sailing to Byzantium, The Second Coming Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Plath: Daddy Lowell: Skunk Hour Milton: Paradise Lost. Book IX (Penguin Classics) In novellas James and Tolstoy most skilled. Read out loud. James: The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition), The Beast in the Jungle, The Jolly Corner. Tolstoy: Hadji Murat. Pevear (Lermontov’s The Dream. Nabokov), The Kreutzer Sonata. Conrad: Heart of Darkness (PCDE). Joyce: The Dead. Kafka: The Metamorphosis. Bernofsky. Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (OWC  and Penguin Classics). Dickens: Master Bradley Headstone. Clayton Burns PhD (Our Mutual Friend).

High School and Undergraduate English by Clayton Burns PhD Professor James Engell of Harvard English, an email to me: “Over my more than forty years of teaching I’ve found students at all levels increasingly untouched by any formal study of grammar, rhetoric, imagery, or verbal patterns.” This is not an exclusive curriculum. COBUILD Intermediate English Grammar, COBUILD English Grammar, OALD App, Merriam-Webster online PCDE Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition; OWC Oxford World’s Classics 1. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) 2. Pride and Prejudice (PCDE) 3. The Great Gatsby (PCDE) 4. Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Annotated Edition (Penguin Modern Classics, Taylor); 1984: The Graphic Novel. Nesti 5. Gwendolen Harleth. Eliot (ed. Clayton Burns PhD from Daniel Deronda); Bradley Headstone. Dickens (ed. Clayton Burns PhD from Our Mutual Friend) 6. A Streetcar Named Desire 7. The Scarlet Letter (exclude The Custom-House) (PCDE) 8. The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Shorter Eighth Edition 9. Heart of Darkness (PCDE), The Secret Sharer 10. Romeo and Juliet (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Arden) 11. Macbeth (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Arden) 12. Poems, Poets, Poetry. Vendler 13. Dubliners (PCDE) 14. Beloved. Morrison 15. Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) 16. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Joyce (PCDE) 17. Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries. Vendler 18. The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition); Daisy Miller; The Beast in the Jungle 19. The Custom of the Country. Wharton (PCDE); Roman Fever (Penguin, 2027) 20. Great Expectations (OWC) 21. The Age of Innocence. Wharton (Penguin Vitae) 22. The Portrait of a Lady (OWC) 23. Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Revised Arden) 24. Othello (Cambridge School Shakespeare and New Cambridge) 25. King Lear (Cambridge School Shakespeare) and The Tragedy of King Lear (New Cambridge) Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Poetry Foundation): 1, 15, 18, 30, 33, 60, 64, 65, 73, 97, 98, 104, 116, 129, 130 Emily Dickinson (Poetry Foundation): 1. How many times these low feet staggered - 2. That after Horror - that 'twas us - 3. Civilization - spurns - the Leopard! 4. There's a certain Slant of light, 5. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, 6. It was not Death, for I stood up, 7. Safe in their Alabaster Chambers - 8. Because I could not stop for Death - 9. The Angle of a Landscape - 10. I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - 11. The Tint I cannot take - is best - 12. The Way I read a Letter's - this - 13. My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - 14. The Wind begun to rock the Grass 15. A narrow Fellow in the Grass 16. Essential Oils - are wrung - Vendler’s Poems, Poets, Poetry and Poetry Foundation: Blake: The Sick Rose, The Tyger, London Wordsworth: A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, Tintern Abbey, Ode: Intimations of Immortality Keats: Ode to a Nightingale, On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Brontë: Remembrance Browning: My Last Duchess Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est Frost: ‘Out, Out—‘ (Audio at Poetry Foundation), (Speech: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow at Poetry Foundation), The Road Not Taken, After Apple-Picking, Design Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole, Sailing to Byzantium, The Second Coming Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Plath: Daddy Lowell: Skunk Hour Milton: Paradise Lost. Book IX (Penguin Classics) In novellas James and Tolstoy most skilled. Read out loud. James: The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition), The Beast in the Jungle, The Jolly Corner. Tolstoy: Hadji Murat. Pevear (Lermontov’s The Dream. Nabokov), The Kreutzer Sonata. Conrad: Heart of Darkness (PCDE). Joyce: The Dead. Kafka: The Metamorphosis. Bernofsky. Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (OWC  and Penguin Classics). Dickens: Master Bradley Headstone. Clayton Burns PhD (Our Mutual Friend).

Lazy and incompetent. Looking for the secret of life in an SAT prep manual. High School and Undergraduate English by Clayton Burns PhD Professor James Engell of Harvard English, an email to me: “Over my more than forty years of teaching I’ve found students at all levels increasingly untouched by any formal study of grammar, rhetoric, imagery, or verbal patterns.” This is not an exclusive curriculum. COBUILD Intermediate English Grammar, COBUILD English Grammar, OALD App, Merriam-Webster online PCDE Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition; OWC Oxford World’s Classics 1. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) 2. Pride and Prejudice (PCDE) 3. The Great Gatsby (PCDE) 4. Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Annotated Edition (Penguin Modern Classics, Taylor); 1984: The Graphic Novel. Nesti 5. Gwendolen Harleth. Eliot (ed. Clayton Burns PhD from Daniel Deronda); Bradley Headstone. Dickens (ed. Clayton Burns PhD from Our Mutual Friend) 6. A Streetcar Named Desire 7. The Scarlet Letter (exclude The Custom-House) (PCDE) 8. The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Shorter Eighth Edition 9. Heart of Darkness (PCDE), The Secret Sharer 10. Romeo and Juliet (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Arden) 11. Macbeth (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Arden) 12. Poems, Poets, Poetry. Vendler 13. Dubliners (PCDE) 14. Beloved. Morrison 15. Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) 16. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Joyce (PCDE) 17. Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries. Vendler 18. The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition); Daisy Miller; The Beast in the Jungle 19. The Custom of the Country. Wharton (PCDE); Roman Fever (Penguin, 2027) 20. Great Expectations (OWC) 21. The Age of Innocence. Wharton (Penguin Vitae) 22. The Portrait of a Lady (OWC) 23. Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Revised Arden) 24. Othello (Cambridge School Shakespeare and New Cambridge) 25. King Lear (Cambridge School Shakespeare) and The Tragedy of King Lear (New Cambridge) Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Poetry Foundation): 1, 15, 18, 30, 33, 60, 64, 65, 73, 97, 98, 104, 116, 129, 130 Emily Dickinson (Poetry Foundation): 1. How many times these low feet staggered - 2. That after Horror - that 'twas us - 3. Civilization - spurns - the Leopard! 4. There's a certain Slant of light, 5. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, 6. It was not Death, for I stood up, 7. Safe in their Alabaster Chambers - 8. Because I could not stop for Death - 9. The Angle of a Landscape - 10. I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - 11. The Tint I cannot take - is best - 12. The Way I read a Letter's - this - 13. My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - 14. The Wind begun to rock the Grass 15. A narrow Fellow in the Grass 16. Essential Oils - are wrung - Vendler’s Poems, Poets, Poetry and Poetry Foundation: Blake: The Sick Rose, The Tyger, London Wordsworth: A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, Tintern Abbey, Ode: Intimations of Immortality Keats: Ode to a Nightingale, On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Brontë: Remembrance Browning: My Last Duchess Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est Frost: ‘Out, Out—‘ (Audio at Poetry Foundation), (Speech: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow at Poetry Foundation), The Road Not Taken, After Apple-Picking, Design Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole, Sailing to Byzantium, The Second Coming Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Plath: Daddy Lowell: Skunk Hour Milton: Paradise Lost. Book IX (Penguin Classics) In novellas James and Tolstoy most skilled. Read out loud. James: The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition), The Beast in the Jungle, The Jolly Corner. Tolstoy: Hadji Murat. Pevear (Lermontov’s The Dream. Nabokov), The Kreutzer Sonata. Conrad: Heart of Darkness (PCDE). Joyce: The Dead. Kafka: The Metamorphosis. Bernofsky. Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (OWC  and Penguin Classics). Dickens: Master Bradley Headstone. Clayton Burns PhD (Our Mutual Friend).

High School and Undergraduate English by Clayton Burns PhD Professor James Engell of Harvard English, an email to me: “Over my more than forty years of teaching I’ve found students at all levels increasingly untouched by any formal study of grammar, rhetoric, imagery, or verbal patterns.” This is not an exclusive curriculum. COBUILD Intermediate English Grammar, COBUILD English Grammar, OALD App, Merriam-Webster online PCDE Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition; OWC Oxford World’s Classics 1. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) 2. Pride and Prejudice (PCDE) 3. The Great Gatsby (PCDE) 4. Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Annotated Edition (Penguin Modern Classics, Taylor); 1984: The Graphic Novel. Nesti 5. Gwendolen Harleth. Eliot (ed. Clayton Burns PhD from Daniel Deronda); Bradley Headstone. Dickens (ed. Clayton Burns PhD from Our Mutual Friend) 6. A Streetcar Named Desire 7. The Scarlet Letter (exclude The Custom-House) (PCDE) 8. The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Shorter Eighth Edition 9. Heart of Darkness (PCDE), The Secret Sharer 10. Romeo and Juliet (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Arden) 11. Macbeth (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Arden) 12. Poems, Poets, Poetry. Vendler 13. Dubliners (PCDE) 14. Beloved. Morrison 15. Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) 16. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Joyce (PCDE) 17. Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries. Vendler 18. The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition); Daisy Miller; The Beast in the Jungle 19. The Custom of the Country. Wharton (PCDE); Roman Fever (Penguin, 2027) 20. Great Expectations (OWC) 21. The Age of Innocence. Wharton (Penguin Vitae) 22. The Portrait of a Lady (OWC) 23. Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Revised Arden) 24. Othello (Cambridge School Shakespeare and New Cambridge) 25. King Lear (Cambridge School Shakespeare) and The Tragedy of King Lear (New Cambridge) Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Poetry Foundation): 1, 15, 18, 30, 33, 60, 64, 65, 73, 97, 98, 104, 116, 129, 130 Emily Dickinson (Poetry Foundation): 1. How many times these low feet staggered - 2. That after Horror - that 'twas us - 3. Civilization - spurns - the Leopard! 4. There's a certain Slant of light, 5. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, 6. It was not Death, for I stood up, 7. Safe in their Alabaster Chambers - 8. Because I could not stop for Death - 9. The Angle of a Landscape - 10. I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - 11. The Tint I cannot take - is best - 12. The Way I read a Letter's - this - 13. My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - 14. The Wind begun to rock the Grass 15. A narrow Fellow in the Grass 16. Essential Oils - are wrung - Vendler’s Poems, Poets, Poetry and Poetry Foundation: Blake: The Sick Rose, The Tyger, London Wordsworth: A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, Tintern Abbey, Ode: Intimations of Immortality Keats: Ode to a Nightingale, On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Brontë: Remembrance Browning: My Last Duchess Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est Frost: ‘Out, Out—‘ (Audio at Poetry Foundation), (Speech: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow at Poetry Foundation), The Road Not Taken, After Apple-Picking, Design Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole, Sailing to Byzantium, The Second Coming Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Plath: Daddy Lowell: Skunk Hour Milton: Paradise Lost. Book IX (Penguin Classics) In novellas James and Tolstoy most skilled. Read out loud. James: The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition), The Beast in the Jungle, The Jolly Corner. Tolstoy: Hadji Murat. Pevear (Lermontov’s The Dream. Nabokov), The Kreutzer Sonata. Conrad: Heart of Darkness (PCDE). Joyce: The Dead. Kafka: The Metamorphosis. Bernofsky. Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (OWC  and Penguin Classics). Dickens: Master Bradley Headstone. Clayton Burns PhD (Our Mutual Friend).

The issue facing UC is whether it is time to aggravate the appalling problems in education—that have been set out with great clarity—by imposing an SAT/ACT patch that has nothing to do with the issues or whether it is time to face reality and accept that Berkeley Math professors know nothing about these problems and are leading a stampede into academic oblivion. California needs a formal, state-wide high school English curriculum for college and university admissions that takes advantage of remarkable developments in applied linguistics—the OALD App and especially the COBUILD English Grammar. There is no grammar on the SAT. Anyone who believes that there is grammar on the SAT is a delusional idiot. Compare this exceptional text to an SAT prep manual and stop talking nonsense, Berkeley professors.

High School and Undergraduate English by Clayton Burns PhD Professor James Engell of Harvard English, an email to me: “Over my more than forty years of teaching I’ve found students at all levels increasingly untouched by any formal study of grammar, rhetoric, imagery, or verbal patterns.” This is not an exclusive curriculum. COBUILD Intermediate English Grammar, COBUILD English Grammar, OALD App, Merriam-Webster online PCDE Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition; OWC Oxford World’s Classics 1. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) 2. Pride and Prejudice (PCDE) 3. The Great Gatsby (PCDE) 4. Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Annotated Edition (Penguin Modern Classics, Taylor); 1984: The Graphic Novel. Nesti 5. Gwendolen Harleth. Eliot (ed. Clayton Burns PhD from Daniel Deronda); Bradley Headstone. Dickens (ed. Clayton Burns PhD from Our Mutual Friend) 6. A Streetcar Named Desire 7. The Scarlet Letter (exclude The Custom-House) (PCDE) 8. The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Shorter Eighth Edition 9. Heart of Darkness (PCDE), The Secret Sharer 10. Romeo and Juliet (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Arden) 11. Macbeth (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Arden) 12. Poems, Poets, Poetry. Vendler 13. Dubliners (PCDE) 14. Beloved. Morrison 15. Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) 16. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Joyce (PCDE) 17. Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries. Vendler 18. The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition); Daisy Miller; The Beast in the Jungle 19. The Custom of the Country. Wharton (PCDE); Roman Fever (Penguin, 2027) 20. Great Expectations (OWC) 21. The Age of Innocence. Wharton (Penguin Vitae) 22. The Portrait of a Lady (OWC) 23. Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Revised Arden) 24. Othello (Cambridge School Shakespeare and New Cambridge) 25. King Lear (Cambridge School Shakespeare) and The Tragedy of King Lear (New Cambridge) Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Poetry Foundation): 1, 15, 18, 30, 33, 60, 64, 65, 73, 97, 98, 104, 116, 129, 130 Emily Dickinson (Poetry Foundation): 1. How many times these low feet staggered - 2. That after Horror - that 'twas us - 3. Civilization - spurns - the Leopard! 4. There's a certain Slant of light, 5. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, 6. It was not Death, for I stood up, 7. Safe in their Alabaster Chambers - 8. Because I could not stop for Death - 9. The Angle of a Landscape - 10. I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - 11. The Tint I cannot take - is best - 12. The Way I read a Letter's - this - 13. My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - 14. The Wind begun to rock the Grass 15. A narrow Fellow in the Grass 16. Essential Oils - are wrung - Vendler’s Poems, Poets, Poetry and Poetry Foundation: Blake: The Sick Rose, The Tyger, London Wordsworth: A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, Tintern Abbey, Ode: Intimations of Immortality Keats: Ode to a Nightingale, On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Brontë: Remembrance Browning: My Last Duchess Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est Frost: ‘Out, Out—‘ (Audio at Poetry Foundation), (Speech: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow at Poetry Foundation), The Road Not Taken, After Apple-Picking, Design Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole, Sailing to Byzantium, The Second Coming Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Plath: Daddy Lowell: Skunk Hour Milton: Paradise Lost. Book IX (Penguin Classics) In novellas James and Tolstoy most skilled. Read out loud. James: The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition), The Beast in the Jungle, The Jolly Corner. Tolstoy: Hadji Murat. Pevear (Lermontov’s The Dream. Nabokov), The Kreutzer Sonata. Conrad: Heart of Darkness (PCDE). Joyce: The Dead. Kafka: The Metamorphosis. Bernofsky. Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (OWC  and Penguin Classics). Dickens: Master Bradley Headstone. Clayton Burns PhD (Our Mutual Friend).

California needs an official high school English curriculum for college and university admissions. High School and Undergraduate English by Clayton Burns PhD Professor James Engell of Harvard English, an email to me: “Over my more than forty years of teaching I’ve found students at all levels increasingly untouched by any formal study of grammar, rhetoric, imagery, or verbal patterns.” This is not an exclusive curriculum. COBUILD Intermediate English Grammar, COBUILD English Grammar, OALD App, Merriam-Webster online PCDE Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition; OWC Oxford World’s Classics 1. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) 2. Pride and Prejudice (PCDE) 3. The Great Gatsby (PCDE) 4. Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Annotated Edition (Penguin Modern Classics, Taylor); 1984: The Graphic Novel. Nesti 5. Gwendolen Harleth. Eliot (ed. Clayton Burns PhD from Daniel Deronda); Bradley Headstone. Dickens (ed. Clayton Burns PhD from Our Mutual Friend) 6. A Streetcar Named Desire 7. The Scarlet Letter (exclude The Custom-House) (PCDE) 8. The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Shorter Eighth Edition 9. Heart of Darkness (PCDE), The Secret Sharer 10. Romeo and Juliet (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Arden) 11. Macbeth (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Arden) 12. Poems, Poets, Poetry. Vendler 13. Dubliners (PCDE) 14. Beloved. Morrison 15. Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) 16. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Joyce (PCDE) 17. Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries. Vendler 18. The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition); Daisy Miller; The Beast in the Jungle 19. The Custom of the Country. Wharton (PCDE); Roman Fever (Penguin, 2027) 20. Great Expectations (OWC) 21. The Age of Innocence. Wharton (Penguin Vitae) 22. The Portrait of a Lady (OWC) 23. Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Revised Arden) 24. Othello (Cambridge School Shakespeare and New Cambridge) 25. King Lear (Cambridge School Shakespeare) and The Tragedy of King Lear (New Cambridge) Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Poetry Foundation): 1, 15, 18, 30, 33, 60, 64, 65, 73, 97, 98, 104, 116, 129, 130 Emily Dickinson (Poetry Foundation): 1. How many times these low feet staggered - 2. That after Horror - that 'twas us - 3. Civilization - spurns - the Leopard! 4. There's a certain Slant of light, 5. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, 6. It was not Death, for I stood up, 7. Safe in their Alabaster Chambers - 8. Because I could not stop for Death - 9. The Angle of a Landscape - 10. I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - 11. The Tint I cannot take - is best - 12. The Way I read a Letter's - this - 13. My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - 14. The Wind begun to rock the Grass 15. A narrow Fellow in the Grass 16. Essential Oils - are wrung - Vendler’s Poems, Poets, Poetry and Poetry Foundation: Blake: The Sick Rose, The Tyger, London Wordsworth: A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, Tintern Abbey, Ode: Intimations of Immortality Keats: Ode to a Nightingale, On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Brontë: Remembrance Browning: My Last Duchess Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est Frost: ‘Out, Out—‘ (Audio at Poetry Foundation), (Speech: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow at Poetry Foundation), The Road Not Taken, After Apple-Picking, Design Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole, Sailing to Byzantium, The Second Coming Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Plath: Daddy Lowell: Skunk Hour Milton: Paradise Lost. Book IX (Penguin Classics) In novellas James and Tolstoy most skilled. Read out loud. James: The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition), The Beast in the Jungle, The Jolly Corner. Tolstoy: Hadji Murat. Pevear (Lermontov’s The Dream. Nabokov), The Kreutzer Sonata. Conrad: Heart of Darkness (PCDE). Joyce: The Dead. Kafka: The Metamorphosis. Bernofsky. Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (OWC  and Penguin Classics). Dickens: Master Bradley Headstone. Clayton Burns PhD (Our Mutual Friend).

High School and Undergraduate English by Clayton Burns PhD Professor James Engell of Harvard English, an email to me: “Over my more than forty years of teaching I’ve found students at all levels increasingly untouched by any formal study of grammar, rhetoric, imagery, or verbal patterns.” This is not an exclusive curriculum. COBUILD Intermediate English Grammar, COBUILD English Grammar, OALD App, Merriam-Webster online PCDE Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition; OWC Oxford World’s Classics 1. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) 2. Pride and Prejudice (PCDE) 3. The Great Gatsby (PCDE) 4. Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Annotated Edition (Penguin Modern Classics, Taylor); 1984: The Graphic Novel. Nesti 5. Gwendolen Harleth. Eliot (ed. Clayton Burns PhD from Daniel Deronda); Bradley Headstone. Dickens (ed. Clayton Burns PhD from Our Mutual Friend) 6. A Streetcar Named Desire 7. The Scarlet Letter (exclude The Custom-House) (PCDE) 8. The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Shorter Eighth Edition 9. Heart of Darkness (PCDE), The Secret Sharer 10. Romeo and Juliet (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Arden) 11. Macbeth (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Arden) 12. Poems, Poets, Poetry. Vendler 13. Dubliners (PCDE) 14. Beloved. Morrison 15. Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) 16. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Joyce (PCDE) 17. Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries. Vendler 18. The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition); Daisy Miller; The Beast in the Jungle 19. The Custom of the Country. Wharton (PCDE); Roman Fever (Penguin, 2027) 20. Great Expectations (OWC) 21. The Age of Innocence. Wharton (Penguin Vitae) 22. The Portrait of a Lady (OWC) 23. Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare and Revised Arden) 24. Othello (Cambridge School Shakespeare and New Cambridge) 25. King Lear (Cambridge School Shakespeare) and The Tragedy of King Lear (New Cambridge) Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Poetry Foundation): 1, 15, 18, 30, 33, 60, 64, 65, 73, 97, 98, 104, 116, 129, 130 Emily Dickinson (Poetry Foundation): 1. How many times these low feet staggered - 2. That after Horror - that 'twas us - 3. Civilization - spurns - the Leopard! 4. There's a certain Slant of light, 5. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, 6. It was not Death, for I stood up, 7. Safe in their Alabaster Chambers - 8. Because I could not stop for Death - 9. The Angle of a Landscape - 10. I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - 11. The Tint I cannot take - is best - 12. The Way I read a Letter's - this - 13. My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - 14. The Wind begun to rock the Grass 15. A narrow Fellow in the Grass 16. Essential Oils - are wrung - Vendler’s Poems, Poets, Poetry and Poetry Foundation: Blake: The Sick Rose, The Tyger, London Wordsworth: A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, Tintern Abbey, Ode: Intimations of Immortality Keats: Ode to a Nightingale, On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Brontë: Remembrance Browning: My Last Duchess Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est Frost: ‘Out, Out—‘ (Audio at Poetry Foundation), (Speech: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow at Poetry Foundation), The Road Not Taken, After Apple-Picking, Design Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole, Sailing to Byzantium, The Second Coming Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Plath: Daddy Lowell: Skunk Hour Milton: Paradise Lost. Book IX (Penguin Classics) In novellas James and Tolstoy most skilled. Read out loud. James: The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition), The Beast in the Jungle, The Jolly Corner. Tolstoy: Hadji Murat. Pevear (Lermontov’s The Dream. Nabokov), The Kreutzer Sonata. Conrad: Heart of Darkness (PCDE). Joyce: The Dead. Kafka: The Metamorphosis. Bernofsky. Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (OWC  and Penguin Classics). Dickens: Master Bradley Headstone. Clayton Burns PhD (Our Mutual Friend).