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Peer reviewedSebesta, Sam Leaton; Schaefer, Christine C. – Journal of Reading, 1981
Provides (in a humorous manner) quotations on the teaching of reading and on the process of reading from famous persons and literary works, with emphasis on lines taken from Shakespearean plays. (MKM)
Descriptors: Bibliotherapy, Literature Appreciation, Reading, Reading Instruction
Salup, Bernice J.; Salup, Alane – 1978
The concept of bibliotherapy is not a new one. Aristotle believed that literature had healing effects and the ancient Romans also recognized that there was some relationship between medicine and reading. Most of the better mental hospitals in Europe had established libraries by the eighteenth century--in the United States by the middle of the…
Descriptors: Bibliotherapy, History, Librarians, Libraries
