Scientists and Engineers Study Chaucer and Wordsworth: Peer Perspectives on the Teaching of Poetry

Author / Editor
Tobias, Sheila, and Lynne S. Abel.

Title
Scientists and Engineers Study Chaucer and Wordsworth: Peer Perspectives on the Teaching of Poetry

Published
English Education 22 (1990): 165-78.

Description
Reports on a 1988 pedagogical experiment designed to explore differences between scientific and humanistic study and the implications of such differences for the teaching of poetry. Poetic language is a "code" not unlike mathematics, although it lacks methods of proof.

Contributor
Abel, Lynne S.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.