Little Fugue, by Robert Anderson. Ballantine, 384 pages, $24.95. Edgar Allan Poe wrote that the death of a beautiful woman "is the most poetical topic in the world." There could hardly be a less wholesome assertion in American criticism (unless it's Camille Paglia's assertion that...

At St. Andrew's School, where chestnut trees tower over the Tudor-style buildings and crisply manicured grounds filmed for "Dead Poets Society," it's a safe bet few of the future Ivy Leaguers plan to become farmers. Yet on the edge of exclusive boarding school's campus, just...

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Even for someone as painfully—ridiculously—attractive as author Taylor Antrim, the process of picture-taking can still be painful. Posing for an Observer photographer last week, leaning against a wall off Sixth Avenue in the West Village, the tall and fair 33-year-old smiled tightly and shot embarrassed...

Reviews the film Dead Poet's Society. Provides a detailed plot description. Discusses the character of Keating and describes what he gives to teaching and what he received in return.

Essay examines Peck's Theory of Love and Discipline As Applied to Character Relationships in the film "The Dead Poets Society." The film involves numerous instances where individual interests, driven by love, come into conflict with discipline invoked by the proponents of social conservation and conformity. Peck's theories are used to analyse these relationships.

Critiques the film Dead Poet's Society. Describes how the film demonstrates the downside of conforming to traditions and the upside of changing the rules and living life to the fullest.