WILDWOOD LITERATURE DEPARTMENT
AMERICAN LITERATURE ENGLISH LITERATURE FRENCH LITERATURE RUSSIAN LITERATURE Reading the works of various peoples is in some senses an outline of their histories told from a more openly personal and poetic point of view.
The old idea that literature is too biased to be history has been replaced by the acknowledgement that no historian is without bias.
Those who wish to participate in the Wildwood Curriculum are invited to be familiar with the context in which works of literature were produced.
- THE AENEID by VERGIL
- THE DIVINE COMEDY by DANTE
- WALDEN by THOREAU
- THE HOBBIT and THE LORD OF THE RINGS by TOLKIEN EUCATASTROPHE SENIOR SEMINAR
And, in our times we have the chance to hear directly from the creator of LOTR, so let's take advantage of that.
INTERVIEW WITH TOLKIEN FROM THE 1960s
DANTE