Lawrence Hall, HSG
Read Within Your Academic Discipline
The Child is father of the Man
-Wordsworth
When I was a child I read
without discipline:
Robert A. Heinlein, Robin
Hood, cowboy yarns
Pirates raiding across the
Spanish Main
Penrod and Sam, Tom
Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn
In college they said, “Read
within your discipline”
The Russians are good,
Romantics if you must
Though the English are overstudied
and overdone
(Some say electronics are
the coming thing)
I minded the words of my
college tutor
‘Til Robin Hood stole the
Sheriff’s computer
My parents gave me that copy of Robin Hood for Christmas when I was perhaps ten years old.
