Instructional Note: Custer and Longfellow: Helping First-Year English Students Understand the Relationship between History and Poetry

Teaching English in the Two-Year College Mar 2007

Instructional Note: Custer and Longfellow: Helping First-Year English Students Understand the Relationship between History and Poetry

Bonnie D. Devet

Abstract

To understand better the subtle relationship between history and English, first-year students in an introductory literature class compare Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem about the 1876 deaths of General George Armstrong Custer and his men with historical accounts of the Battle of the Little Bighorn in order to discover how historical and poetic truths are related.

Journal: Teaching English in the Two-Year College
Published: 2007-03-01
DOI: 10.58680/tetyc20076066
Topics: multilingual writers

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