“The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment and a particular physical condition. These and many other elements in a never-to-be-duplicated combination determine his response to the text.” NeedsMomentsPastMemoriesConditionsEventsParticularPersonalityReaderElementsResponseDetermineMoodCombinationTraitsPreoccupationPersonality TraitsPast Events Book:Transactions with literature: a fifty-year perspective : for Louise M. Rosenblatt Source: Transactions with literature: a fifty-year perspective : for Louise M. Rosenblatt
“A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text.” ReaderGuidanceRelevant Author:Louise Rosenblatt
“Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.” GivingWritingBookReadingReaderPagesProfessorsInk Author:Louise Rosenblatt
