Dear Future Student,

I have been teaching young people like You how to write about literature and how to read literature closely for many years; I have won awards of distinction for the high quality of my teaching.

I teach how it is to read a text slowly and then to write comprehensively about what has been understood: this is a great art and essential to any intellectual endeavor. Both prose and poetry are my field. Good grammar and syntax are basic instruments in this work but ...