Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Chapter 12.  Late on a winter afternoon a young woman is walking from the country manor where she works toward the neighbouring village.  Jane Eyre has known great sadness.  She is poor and friendless but also strong and wise, possessed of high integrity and deep faith.  When she shortly encounters a strange man on horseback the meeting will change her, but it will change him even more.  We love hearing from all of you. Please email us at Profe...

EP13 – Beyond the Sunset | Tennyson, Ulysses

Why do great novels, poems and plays move us and excite us? How can they change the way we look at ourselves and the world? What do these authors have to teach us? Why do they matter? There are no better answers to these questions than those provided by the authors themselves. We want to let them speak. Professing Literature is not a broad summary of major works. Instead, it will zero in on one or two key passages, looking at them closely in order to figure out what is at stake. The goal will be to appreciate an author’s brilliance by seeing him or her in action. We will unpack key phrases, images and metaphors and we will consider the techniques the writer uses to make ideas come alive.