Product Description
In the years before he wrote War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy founded and ran a school on his estate at Yasanya Polyana. Brimming with progressive and sometimes radical ideas on schooling, Tolstoy undertook to teach the peasant children many subjects-including imaginative writing-and wrote about what he learned. This is a book for anyone who cares about education.
About the Author
BOB BLAISDELL teaches writing and literature at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, NY. He has edited Emperor of Ice Cream and Other Poems by Wallace Stevens (forthcoming), North American Indian Speeches (forthcoming), Snake and Other Poems by D.H. Lawrence, The Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy, Hardy's "The Fiddler of the Reels" and Other Stories, Giovannie Boccaccio's Selected Tales, and The Imagists: An Anthology, all published by Dover Books. Blaisdell has published essays in two books published by Teachers & Writers, Classics in the Classroom: Using Great Literature to Teach Writing and The T&W Guide to William Carlos Williams. Tolstoy as Teacher evolved from an article he published in Teachers & Writers magazine (Vol. 29, No. 2) titled "Tolstoy, the Writing Teacher."
About the Translator
CHRISTOPHER EDGAR is a poet, writer, translator, editor, and teacher. He studied Russian history and literature at Columbia University's W. Averill Harriman Institute and has translated works by Vladimir Mayakovsky, Velimir Khlebnikov, Nikolai Gumilev, and other Russian writers. Edgar is coeditor of Educating the Imagination, Volumes 1 &2, Classics in the Classroom: Using Great Literature to Teach Writing, Old Faithful: 18 Writers Present Their Favorite Writing Assignments, and The Nearness of You: Students and Teachers Writing On-line, all published by Teachers & Writers. He is Publications Director of Teachers & Writers Collaborative, and is an editor of The Hat, a literary magazine.
