Ted Blodgett and the Pedagogy of Wonder

Abstract

"Everyone who studied with [Blodgett] will agree that they have never met a man so finely attuned to things beautiful and painful, complex and simple, funny and serious, and so accomplished in building a life saturated with the intensities that come from reflection and creation. It is important to know that all of these pursuits were meaningful to him because they could be shared. Over 50 years, working in eleven universities and colleges in five countries, he taught courses as diverse as the Classical Tradition, Dante, Chaucer, Provençal and Old French Lyric, Ancient and Contemporary World Literature, Literary Criticism, Forms of Poetry, early and contemporary Canadian and Québécois Literature, and Feminist Literary Theory."