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Biographical Sketch |
1/25 – Yeats (cont.) – "Easter 1916" (105-6); "The Wild Swans At Coole" (107); "The Second Coming" (111)
1/30 – Group I (Jinny, Laura, and Shavonne) commentary due in class. Discuss Yeats writing assignment.
Yeats (cont.) – "A Prayer for My Daughter" (112-13); "Leda and the Swan" (118); "Sailing to Byzantium" (123-4); "Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop" (130); "Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931" (xerox)
2/1 – Yeats (cont.) – "Lapis Lazuli" (135-6); "The Circus Animals' Desertion" (142-3); "Politics" (143); "Cuchulain Comforted" (xerox)
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Biographical Sketch "The Love-Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (463-6) "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (941-7) |
2/8 – Group II (Jane, Emily, and Barbara) commentary due in class. Eliot (cont.) – The Waste Land ("The Burial of the Dead" + "Game of Chess" ) + excerpt on "The Waste Land" from Rosenthal and Gall (xerox)
[2/9 – Yeats writing assignment due by 5 p.m.]
2/13 – STUDENT-LED SESSION (Laura and Jinny). Eliot (cont.) – The Waste Land ("The Fire Sermon" and "Death by Water")
2/20 - Eliot (cont.) "Little Gidding" (from Four Quartets) (488-95)
2/22 – Group I commentary due in class.
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"Man and Bat"; "Pomegranate"; "Peach" (xeroxes) "The Poetry of the Present" (960-3)
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2/27 – Lawrence (cont.) – STUDENT-LED SESSION. "Snake" (333-5); "Lui et Elle" (325-8) + "Tortoise Shout" and commentary; "Bibbles"; "Mountain Lion"; "The Red Wolf" (xeroxes)
3/1 – Lawrence (cont.) – Scansion of last stanza of "Love on the Farm" due in class (optional). "Bavarian Gentians" (341-2); "The Ship of Death" (342-5) + "Shadows" and excerpt from Sagar's D.H. Lawrence: Life into Art (xeroxes)
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Gertrude Stein February 14, 1935 Sweet Briar News: |
3/ 8 – Stein (cont.) – "Patriarchal Poetry"; "A Geographical History of America" (excerpts). Recording of Stein reading "If I Told Him" (a portrait of Picasso).
[SPRING BREAK 
3/9 – 3/19]
3/20 – STUDENT-LED SESSION. Group I commentary due. – Mina Loy 
Biographical sketch. "Brancusi's Golden Bird" (273); "Songs to Joannes" (269-72 ); "Feminist Manifesto" (921-25); "The Widow's Jazz" (282-83)
3/22 – "Gertrude Stein"(281);"English Rose" (275-81); Perloff's essay on "English Rose" (xerox); "Three Moments in Paris"
3/27 – Edna St. Vincent Millay 
– Norton: Biographical sketch; "First Fig"; "I, being born a woman and distressed"; "Love Is Not All: It is Not Meat Nor Drink"
Under the link for "Sonnets From The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems" at Millay Girl Site: "Second Fig" + "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where and Why"; "Oh, oh you will be sorry for that word"
"Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree" I-XVII at Sonnets of Millay Online
3/29 – Group II commentary due. Millay (cont.) – All Xeroxes: other biographical sketches; Di Yanni on sonnet-form, with Millay's "I Dreamed I Moved among the Elysian Fields"; "Rendevous"; "The Fitting"; "I too beneath your moon, almighty Sex"; "The Courage that My Mother Had"; "Conscientious Objector"; "Justice Denied in Massachussetts"
4/3 – Wallace Stevens 
Biographical sketches; "Sunday Morning" (237-40); "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock" (242); "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" (244-6); "The Snow-Man" (247)
4/5 – STUDENT-LED SESSION. Stevens (cont.) – "The Idea of Order at Key West" (249-50); "A Postcard from the Volcano" (250-1); "The Man on the Dump" (254-5); "Of Modern Poetry" (255-6); "Aphorisms" (971-5)
4/10 – Stevens (cont.) – "A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts" (252); "Large Red Man Reading" (260-1); "The Planet on the Table" (265); "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour" (xerox); "The Plain Sense of Things" (266); "Reality is an Activity of the Most August Imagination" (267); "Of Mere Being" (267); From "The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words" (976-83)
4/12 – William Carlos Williams
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4/17– STUDENT-LED SESSION. Williams (cont.) – "Sympathetic Portrait of a Child" (288-9)"; "The Last Words of My English Grandmother" (299-300); "The Yachts"
4/19 – Williams (cont.) – "Spring and All" (291-2); "Death" (295-6); "Between Walls" (+ Perloff commentary - xerox); "To Elsie" (293-4) [+ video excerpt on "To Elsie"]
[4/20 – PAPERS DUE, if you choose the option to revise. Revised papers are due May 4.]
4/24 – Williams (cont.) - "The Locust Tree in Flower" I and II (xerox); From "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" (311-17)
4/26 – STUDENT-LED SESSION. Langston Hughes – Biographical sketch
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (687-8); "The Bitter River" (694-6) |
5/1 – Hughes (cont.) "Listen Here Blues"; "Come to the Waldorf-Astoria"; "Christ in Alabama" (xeroxes); "Dream Boogie" and "Harlem" from Montage of a Dream Deferred (700; 704). Portfolios due. Discuss final presentations. Do course evaluations.
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[Thurs., 5/3 – READING DAY]
[Fri., 5/4 –
Revised papers due (only
those submitted by 4/20).]
[Exams: May 4-9]
