Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin (1991)
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Publication Date: 5/26/2026
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Teaching Particulars: Literary Conversations in Grades 6–12 Greece Talking at the Gates: A248 page paperback 5. 5" x 8. 5" ISBN 978 1 58988 091 7 Publication Date: June 2015 In Teaching Particulars, Helaine Smith engages her students, grammar school through twelfth gradeand any avid readerin the questions that great literature evokes. Included are chapters on Homer and Genesis; plays by Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Beckett; poems by Jonson, Donne, Coleridge, Browning, Hopkins, Yeats, Bishop, Hecht, Dove, and Lowell; essays by Baldwin, Lamb,