For next class:

• Rosenthal 3-73; 82-95
• Norton v1 1-41 (Whitman and Dickinson--all; plus Hardy's "Hap," "Darkling Thrush," and Poems 1912-1913
• Everdell 1-29; 80-99

Whitman, Dickinson, Hardy

• US Editions of Leaves of Grass
• Dickinson Fascicle 16 interactive
• What editors did to some poems
• Versioning machine (Dickinson revises one poem)
• Hardy's "Apology"
• Seurat: Painting and Light
• Musical Analogs Whitman
  • Edward MacDowell
  • Mahler Piano Quartet
• Musical Analogs for Dickinson
  • Charles Ives Quarter tone music:
  • Recent quarter tone composition
  • Charles Ives Bio
  • Charles Ives Emerson
  • Charles Ives Unanswered Question (revised throughout lifetime to increase dissonance )
  • Schoenberg 12 tones:
  • Schoenberg Book of the hanging gardens 
  • Schoenberg String Quartet #2 caused riots

For next class:

• Perkins v1 100-102; 119-131; 227-251; 565-602
• Rosenthal 122-145
• Norton v1 104-143; 162-171; 201-225
• Downloads (while books are "in transit")
  • Perkins 1
  • Perkins 2
  • Rosenthal

For next class:

• Everdell 321-345
• Perkins v1 449-489 (Pound); 527-564 (Moore and Williams); [optional v2 on Williams and Pound]
• Norton 1 176-186 (Tender Buttons and Picasso); 921-926; 268-273; 283-307 ("Young Housewife," "Danse Russe," "Portrait of a Lady," "Spring & All," "Burning the Christmas Greens," and "Paterson" 302-7; Pound 345-387 (PPortrait d'une Femme," "Pact," "In a Station..." "River Merchant's Wife," Cantos I & CXVI, and see also "Retrospect" 929-933; Moore 430-454 ("Black Earth," "The Fish," "Poetry," "Octopus," "What are Years")

Stein, Loy, Pound, Moore,and Williams

• Futurism
• A video of Marinetti's Futurist Manifesto
• Futurist art
• Romance of the machine: American Visions on the Chrysler building (see esp 7:30 on)
• Acmeism (Russian poetry movement)
• 1913 Armory Show
• Rite of Spring (recreation of 1913 production)
• St Louis Blues
• Pretty Baby (Wurlitzer)
• Modernist film:
  • Leger: Ballet Mechaniqe
  • Duchamp: Anemic Cinema
  • Man Ray: "La Retour a la Raison"
  • Clair: "Entr'acte" parts 1 and 2
  • Lang: Metropolis
• Loy's poems:
  • Lunar Baedecker (entire text)
  • Lion's Jaws and Three Moments in Paris
  • Aphorisms on Futurism
• Stein video
  • Stein reading from Picasso portrait
  • Paris was a Woman selection on Stein
• Pound in his Time
• Poetry foundation pages
  • Williams (includes great audio)
  • Pound

For next class:

• Everdell 127-141;241-251
• Perkins on Stevens, Eliot, and Auden (vol2) (optional: Eliot part 2)
• Norton v1 Stevens 235-268 ("Thirteen Ways," "Anecdote of a Jar," "Snow Man," "Idea of Order at Key West," "Postcard from the Volcano," "Man on the Dump,"); 460-6; Eliot 472-495 (Love Song, Wasteland, Sweeney); Auden 783-810 ("Musee des Beaux Arts," "Who's Who," "As I Walked Out One Evening," "In Memory of WB Yeats," "Unknown Citizen," "In Memory of Sigmund Freud," "Shield of Achilles," "New Year Greeting")

*Stevens, *Auden, Eliot

• Prufrock interactive
• Eliot's Wasteland interactive
• Eliot reading it (excruciating!)
• Elizabeth Alexander discusses poetry, including Prufrock, on Colbert Report
• My notes on Wasteland

Context:

• Wallace Stevens: The Problems of Painters and Poets
• Dali dream sequence in Spellbound

For next class (readings will be up by Friday):

• Everdell 206-227
• Perkins v1 363-415
• Clark, Sentimental Modernism
• North, Dialect of Modernism
• MacDiarmid article from Modernism & Colonialism (kind of dense...do your best)
• Norton v.1 Millay, MacNeice, MacDiarmid, Hughes

*Millay, MacNeice, MacDiarmid, *Hughes

• MacNeice reading Autobiography

For next class:

• Everdell 303-321;
• Rosenthal 314-330
• Perkins v2 367-374; 614-616; 633-37 (pdf) (I included the section on Ashberry; it's helpful, if you have time...)
• Norton v.1 & 2: Poetry of Crane, Roethke, Ammons

*Crane, *Roethke, Ammons

• Langdom Hammer: Hart Crane and Jasper Johns (American Perspectives audio lecture)
• Jasper Johns: paintings of the 1960s

For next class:

• Perkins v2 174-9; 355-6; 374-380; 600-614
• Essay on Bishop by Katie Ford
• Poetry of Bishop and Brooks (v2) and Thomas (v1)
• Recasting Gwendolyn (audio) by Danielle Chapman, and an essay, Sweet Bombs
• Brooks 101: 5 poems with audio (also by Chapman)
• Rash, Dylan Thomas (poem)

Take-home midterm

For next class:

• Perkins v2 396-403; 404-417; 588-600
• Poetry (all v. 2)

For next class:

• Perkins v2 553-587
• Poetry (all v2)

*Wright, *Merwin, Bly, Simic, Snyder

• The Poetics of Robert Bly's Deep Image

For next class:

• Rich, When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Revision (1971)
• Perkins v2 528-9; 546-552
• Baraka Expressive Language (1963)
• Walcott: The Muse of History
• Poetry (all v. 2)

*Ginsberg, *Rich, Baraka, Walcott

• Protest poetry with a beat

For next class:

• Perkins v2 381-392; 418-427; 434-438
• Longenbach: The Overlooked Master: How Poetic History Conspired Against Richard Wilbur (Slate, 2004)
• poetry (all v. 2)

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