Donald M. Hassler

Academic Questions

June 7, 2021

Three Poems

Donald M. Hassler

A trio of poems by Donald M. Hassler: "Conservative Values from 1859-1860," "Family Ties and Generation Sonnet," and "A Sonnet of Cacophony."

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September 30, 2020

A Noble Warrior with Pen in Hand

Donald M. Hassler

A review of The Conversational Enlightenment: the Reconception of Rhetoric in 18th Century Thought, David Randall, Edinburgh University Press, 2019, 297 pp., $29.95 paperback.

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September 30, 2020

Hard Sonnet in a Hard Time

Donald M. Hassler

"But perhaps if we can use the time to climb / The peaks of loneliness the view will clear / And style can yield a little fruit."

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September 9, 2019

Grove City College Plays Yale: Academic Values in the Trump Era

Donald M. Hassler

A personal reflection contrasting an education at Grove City with that of Yale. 

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September 9, 2016

No Longer Black and White: A Forum on "To Kill a Mockingbird"

Peter Wood, Carol Iannone, Michael Krauss, Mary Grabar, Mark Bauerlein, Duke Pesta, Wight Martindale Jr., Peter Augustine Lawler, John M. Gist, Donald M. Hassler and Colin D. Pearce

Forum contributors discuss To Kill a Mockingbird’s substance and standing in 2016, particularly among American teachers and in light of Lee’s complex, unsettling depiction of Moc......

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