Five stars: A book about opera to enjoy and to learn from
the family packs their lives into two crates and flees to China
and love that moves us toward each other can give us a sense of eternity
are examined in the course of elegantly composed letters between imagined witnesses to physics history
as is true for her reading of Hecht’s ‘Devotions of a Painter
Teaching Particulars: Literary Conversations in Grades 6–12 David Mason Five stars: A book about248 page paperback 5. 5" x 8. 5" ISBN 978 1 58988 091 7 Publication Date: June 2015 In Teaching Particulars, Helaine Smith engages her students, grammar school through twelfth gradeand any avid readerin the questions that great literature evokes. Included are chapters on Homer and Genesis; plays by Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Beckett; poems by Jonson, Donne, Coleridge, Browning, Hopkins, Yeats, Bishop, Hecht, Dove, and Lowell; essays by Baldwin, Lamb,