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The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.
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By the late 1890s Kenneth Grahame had established his reputation in England and in the United States as an essayist. In 1898, at the age of thirty-nine, he further distinguished himself by becoming th...
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For more than eighty years, Kenneth Grahame's works have been among the most widely read of English children's writers. In his 1959 biography of Grahame, Peter Green reports that The Wind in the Willo...
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Although it has often been pointed out that The Wind in the Willows (1908), Kenneth Grahame's most enduring work, presents an idealized portrait of rural nineteenth-century England, Edmund Little in T...
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In the following essay, Milne expresses his enthusiasm for Grahame's The Wind in the Willows.
Once on a time I discovered Samuel Butler; not the other two, but the one who wrote The Way of All ...
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In the following essay, Willis traces the influence of English Romantic literature on The Wind in the Willows.
The Seafarer, refreshed and strengthened, his voice more vibrant, his eye lit with a bri...
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In the following essay, DeForest explains the similarities between Toad in The Wind in the Willows and Homer's Ulysses.
First published in 1908, Kenneth Grahame's masterpiece, The Wind i...
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In the following essay, Moore argues that the Arcadian world portrayed in The Wind in the Willows is actually an "uneasy Eden. '
In his introduction to what has become accepted as Kennet...
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In the following essay, Poss examines pastoral themes in The Wind in the Willows.
Throughout Kenneth Grahame's two collections of short stories, The Golden Age and Dream Days, his narrator writ...
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In the following essay, Sale surveys The Wind in the Willows and considers its place within the "cult of childhood."
When I took a studio at No. 4 St. George's Square, Primrose H...
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In the following essay, Steig examines what he perceives as a veiled eroticism in The Wind in the Willows, using his own childhood reading of the book as a springboard for his discussion.
One does no...
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In the following essay, Lippman considers the notion of "comfort" as it applies to The Wind in the Willows.
There are times in life when innocence seems very far away, like something onc...
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In the following essay, Philip provides reasons why The Wind in the Willows remains a favorite book of both children and adults.
"Vitality—that is the test," wrote Kenneth Grahame...
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SOURCE: "Kenneth Grahame and the Search for Arcadia" and "The Wind in the Willows," in Secret Gardens: A Study of the Golden Age of Children's Literature, Houghton M...
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In the following essay, originally published in 1969, Tucker examines the continuing fascination children have with the character of Toad in The Wind in the Willows.
Although The Wind in the Willows w...
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In the following essay, West asserts that Grahame's portrayal of Toad in The Wind in the Willows could almost be an illustration of narcissistic personality disorder.
Of the four major characte...
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In the following essay, Watkins views the enduring popularity of The Wind in the Willows as a result of nostalgia for a long-ago England.
On January 1st, 1983, The Wind in the Willows came out of copy...
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In the following essay, McGillis offers conservative, radical, and visionary perspectives on The Wind in the Willows.
“Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult.”
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In the following essay, Kuznets provides a thematic and stylistic analysis of The Wind in the Willows, focusing on mythological aspects of the children's book.
Grahame's many readers wai...
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In the following essay, Price traces the origins of The Wind in the Willows.
One of this century's beloved children's books, popular on both sides of the Atlantic, originated in a series...
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In the following excerpt, Wall discusses Grahame as a children's author and The Wind in the Willows as a children's book.
The contribution of Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) to the evolution...
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In the following essay, Thum explores the theme of journeys—mental and physical—in The Wind in the Willows.
In a 1913 essay entitled “The Fellow that Goes Alone,” Kenneth G...
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In the following essay, Hunt analyzes the narrative structure of The Wind in the Willows, contending that “we cannot separate structure from symbol, symbol from character, or character from lan...
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In the following essay, Stevenson discusses William Horwood's The Willows in Winter as a sequel to The Wind in the Willows.
Children's literature has for some time been interested in the...
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Imaginative Journeys- Analytical Essay
The dust jacket of `The Ivory Trail' by Victor Kelleher, `Contact', a film directed by Robert Zimeck, and an extract from the `Wind in the Willows' by Kenneth G...
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Teaching The Wind in the Willows
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The Wind in the Willows Lesson Plans contain 92 pages of teaching material, including:
Kenneth Grahame
Critical Essay by A. A. Milne
Imaginative Journeys
