/lit/ - Literature

Has anybody here ever taught English at highschool level?

>>13252628
>"And literature is written to be entertaining?" Wooley suggests again,
>"Absolutely. My God, to read without joy is stupid."~ John Williams(Stoner)

> Inevitably, Williams was shot down, breaking ribs when the plane fell, and narrowly evading a troop of Japanese soldiers. But, as Shields states, Williams’s name does not appear on any official flight documentation. Williams’s story about being shot down is no doubt based on actual anecdotes from soldiers, and is in that way believable, one of many instances of Williams telling stories to live up to a fictional image of self

>The assemblage of poets, however, was largely cribbed, uncredited, from the scholarship of Yvor Winters. According to Shields, “the overlap was about 80 percent.” Winters was angry about “the lack of attribution, which he believed was deliberate and typical of Williams.” In addition to what amounts to plagiarism, Shields discusses Williams as a textbook example of privilege, stating that “he had taken shortcuts since the beginning of his teaching career,” often delivering lectures culled from the work of his colleagues and passing the work off as his own as he devoted his energies to writing novels. Winters condemned Williams as arrogant, leaving the author again as an outsider.

https://themillions.com/2019/02/biography-of-a-man-who-wrote-the-perfect-novel.html

I always pictured John Edward Williams as a kind of stoic, humble, innocent figure similar to Stoner.

What do you guys think about an author whose character IRL turns out to be quite flawed and so on?

John Williams thread. After reading Stoner and Butcher's Crossing I can honestly say this guy was massively underrated during his time. It's nice to see him make a comeback and gain an audience even after his death. What else should I read from him?

>>11758468
shakespeare sonnet 73