ABSTRACT
Much can be done in the classroom with lists.There are many fine poems in English that are mainly lists, and even more that use or incorporate lists. Indeed the amount of list-making that occurs in poetry is surprising, as anyone who looks for the list-in-the-poem soon finds.A wonderful gathering of literary lists can be found in Francis Spufford’s Chatto Book of Cabbages and Kings. It is out of print, but worth hunting down for the innumerable ideas it will set in motion.
