Schedule of Readings and Assignments
Week Day Date Subject Reading Special Deadlines
1 R 8/21/2003 Reading Poetry, Intro  Handout; Norton I "Leda and the Swan," "Clifton "Leda"  none today
2 T 8/26/2003 Proto-Modernism

 Norton I: Dickinson Letters 261 & 268 (pp. 870-873)#49,#280,#754,#1129

 Norton Volume I unless otherwise specified
2 W 8/27/2003     End of Drop-add
2 R 8/28/2003  

Exaltation: 242-6; Norton I: Whitman, "Song of Myself" Parts 1-3,13-14,46-52

  
3 T 9/2/2003   Norton I: Hardy, "Hap","Darkling Thrush"; Hopkins, "God's Grandeur," "I Wake and Feel the Fell..."
Exaltation of Forms 297-304		  
3 R 9/4/2003 Modernisms

Yeats,"Lake Isle of Innisfree","Second Coming," "Sailing to Byzantium," "The Circus Animal's Desertion"; Exaltation of Forms 39-52 
Yeats handout

  
4 T 9/9/2003   ""  
4 R 9/11/2003  

 Frost, "The Figure a Poem Makes" (essay-984-6) "After Apple Picking," "Oven Bird," "Birches,""Directive"

Recording: Frost reading some of his poems (beware)

  
5 T 9/16/2003   ""  
5 R 9/18/2003 High Modernism

HMP: 3-13; Eliot "Waste land"

  
6 T 9/23/2003 Modes of Modern  HMP 32-47; Cummings; "In Just," "O sweet spontaneous," "my father moved...", "anyone lived...."  
6 R 9/25/2003  

Moore, "The Fish," "Black Earth," "Poetry," "What are Years" Exaltation of Forms 25-30

  
7 T 9/30/2003 Race Modernism  Hughes, "Montage of a Dream Deferred," Toomer, "Her Lips"; Exaltation of Forms 188-198
  
7 R 10/2/2003 Auden

 HMP 130-138, 148-164; Norton I: "Lullaby," "In Memory of Sigmund Freud"

  • A good NY Times article about the recent popularity of "September 1, 1939" (requires one-time registration)
  
8 T 10/7/2003  

 "Musee des Beaux Arts," "In Memory of W.B. Yeats" "As I Walked out"

  
8 R 10/9/2003 FALL BREAK    
9 T 10/14/2003 Williams and Imagism  HMP 246-271; Norton I "Young Housewife," "Portrait of a Lady," "Spring and All," "Botticellian Trees"  
9 R 10/16/2003 Stevens

HMP 276-99; "Thirteen Ways", "Snow Man" "Idea of Order at Key West"; "Anecdote of the Jar," "Man with the Blue Guitar"

Stevens sites:

Last day to drop with a W
10 T 10/21/2003    ""Midterm Study Guide  
10 R 10/23/2003 MIDTERM  Midterm Study Guide  
11 T 10/28/2003 Postmodernism HMP 338-353; 374-380; Bishop "The Map," "At the Fishhouses," "Poem" "North Haven"  Norton vol. II unless otherwise specified
11 R 10/30/2003 Confessionalism  Lowell, "Memories of West Street," "Skunk Hour," Plath, "Elm", "The Applicant," Sharon Olds, "Once"  
12 T 11/4/2003 Environment and Anti-Civilization HMP 553-88; Norton II: James Wright, "Autumn Begins," Lying in a Hammock," Merwin, "For a Coming Extinction," Snyder, "Above Pate Valley"; Mary Oliver, Black Oaks  
12 R 11/6/2003 Formalists and New Formalists Form: Bishop, "Sestina," "One Art," skim Exaltation of Forms 290-7; 314-321; Exaltation 167-80; Sexton "Ballad" (handout); Wilbur, Advice to a Prophet; Justice, Villanelle at Sundown  
13 T 11/11/2003  

New formalism and Expansivism: Gioia, Can Poetry Matter; Rough Country; Schackenburg, Supernatural Love; Leithauser, Small Waterfall; Cummins, Sestina; Hudgins, In the Well; R.T. Smith, A local doc; Kumin, Hard Frost

  
13 R 11/13/2003 Black poets, black forms HMP 600-614; Exaltation 272-9; Norton II: Gwendolyn Brooks, "We Real Cool," Baraka, "Poem for Speculatie Hipsters," Jordan, "Notes on the Peanut"; Clifton, "At the Cemetery..." Dove, "House Slave"  
14 T 11/18/2003 Some Women Poets Rich, "Planetarium," Piercy, "Moonburn," Ai, "Twenty-Year Marriage," Jorie Graham, "At Luca Sinorelli's Resurrection...", McPherson, Poppies  
14 R 11/20/2003 Welsh and Irish Poets

For Class today, go to the online discussion group. click on the forum called English 471: Modern Poetry, then click on my posting labeled "11/20: Discussion Question...". Follow up by select "post reply."

Then follow up to someone else's comments.

HMP: 471-486; Norton II: Thomas, "Fern Hill"; Heaney, "Digging," "Bog Queen," Essay "Feeling into Words" (1091); Boland, "Mise Eire," "Pomegranate"

  
15 T 11/25/2003 Experimental and Oral Forms

Projective Verse 1053-61

Exaltation 325-341 (skim)

Exaltation: 341-351; Slams and Slam Poetics

 Last day for admin or mental health withdrawal
15 R 11/27/2003   THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY  
16 T 12/2/2003 POMO and Experimental Forms

Language Poetry (and the politics of language Poetry)

Exaltation: Procedural Poetry 366-379

 

  
16 R 12/4/2003 Some recent U.S. Poet Laureates

Glück named Poet Laureate by US Library of Congress

Wilbur, "Love Calls Us...", Van Duyn First Trip through an Automatic Car Wash, Strand, "Eating Poetry," Hass, "Meditation at Lagunitas," Collins, "Thesaurus" (and view a Cybercast of his poetry reading from the Library of Congress); Glück, "Mock Orange"

  
Exams      
471 T 12/9/2003   12-2:30 PM FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE