For the Love of Literature: A Celebration of Language and Imagination

As stated, "An unoticed component of the current educational, social, and even ecological crisis lies in the decline in the value accorded to what we rightly call the 'Humanities'."The present collection of essays seeks to address this situation from the point of view of Waldorf education. The work of Christy MacKaye Barnes, a master teacher of English, a poet and practioner of the art of speech formation (recitation) focuses on general themes, such as training of imagination, speech and poetry and the schooling of capacities through the study of great authors"