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READINGS |
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ASSIGNMENTS |
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- Poetry out loud: James Weldon Johnson, "Creation," and Beowulf (trans. S. Heaney), listening and handout.
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Anon. "Alison."
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Chaucer. "General Prologue," The Canterbury Tales, ll. 1-34.
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Anon. "I Sing of a Maiden," "I have a Young Sister," "Timor Mortis," "Western Wind."
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Louise Gluck. "End of Winter" (e-reserve).
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T. S. Eliot. "The Wasteland" (just read the beginning).
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For something totally different: Skelton, from "Colin Clout."
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Sonnets by Sidney (1, 31, 47, 49, 52, 71).
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Spenser (67, 70, 71, 75, 81).
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Shakespeare (1-20, 33, 55, 65, 73, 94, 116, 129, 130, 138).
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Wroth. "Love a Child is Ever Crying."
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Also really good: anything by Wyatt.
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4 |
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- Marvell. "The Garden," "The Mower Against Gardens," "The Mower to the Glow-worms."
- Jonson. "To Penshurst."
- K. Philips. "Upon the graving of her Name upon a Tree in Barnelmes Walks," #137 in Poems, 1667 (see "Readings").
- Stevie Smith. "Pretty."
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Class Notes (PDF) |
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5 |
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Guest instructor: Stephen Tapscott.
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Marlowe."The Passionate Shepherd."
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Raleigh. "The Nymph's Reply."
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Donne. "The Bait." (see "Readings")
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6 |
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Guest Instructor: Janet Thompson. Workshop on Writing Sonnets. |
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- Donne. "The Sun Rising," "The Canonization," "Elegy XIX."
- Marvell. "To His Coy Mistress."
- Philips. "An Answer to another perswading a Lady to Marriage," "Friendship's Mystery, To my dearest Lucasia," in Poems, 1667 (Renaissance Women Online).
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First Essay Due (Medieval and Renaissance Lyric) |
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- Herbert. "Jordan I," "Virtue," "The Collar," "The Pulley," "Love III."
- Donne. "Good Friday," Holy Sonnets 10 & 14.
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- Milton. "Lycidas."
- Heaney. "Casualty" (e-reserve).
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- Pope. "An Essay on Criticism."
- Gray. "Elegy in a Country Churchyard," "Ode: On the Death of a Favorite Cat."
- Wheatley. "On Being Brought from Africa to America," "To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing his Works."
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- William Collins. "Ode on the Poetical Character."
- Blake, poems in Norton ("The Book of Thel" is optional).
- Please read poems from Songs of Innocence and Experience (illustrated) in the William Blake Archive.
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Essay 2 Due |
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12 |
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- Wordsworth and Coleridge. Lyrical Ballads (UVA E-Texts): The "Advertisement" (in "Front Matter"), "Lines Left Upon a Seat In a Yew Tree," "We are Seven," "The Thorn," "The Idiot Boy," "The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman," "Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey."
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13 |
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- Wordsworth. "The Prelude" (selection), "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways."
- S. T. Coleridge. "Frost at Midnight," "Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Kublai Khan."
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Essay 2 Returned |
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14 |
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- Shelley. "Mont Blanc."
- Keats. "Ode to a Grecian Urn," "Ode to a Nightingale."
- Byron. "Stanzas," "On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year, "Don Juan" (selection).
NOTE: "Don Juan" is long even in this very small excerpt, but trust me, it's worth reading.
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Revision of Essay 2 Due |
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15 |
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- Walt Whitman. "Song of Myself," "Vigil Strange I Kept," "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking."
Also "I Sing the Body Electric" and "The Artilleryman's Vision" (links under "Readings").
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16 |
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Third Essay Due (Romantics) |
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17 |
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- Emily Dickinson, all poems in Norton.
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- Yeats. "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," "Easter 1916," "The Second Coming," "Sailing to Byzantium," "Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop," "The Circus Animal's Desertion," "Under Ben Bulben."
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- Robert Frost. "Mending Wall," "The Oven Bird," "Birches," "Acquainted with the Night," "Neither Out Far Nor In Deep," "Design," "The Silken Tent," "Come In," "Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same," "The Most of It," "Directive."
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- Wallace Stevens. "The Snow Man," "The Emperor of Ice Cream," "Sunday Morning," "Anecdote of the Jar," "The Idea of Order at Key West."
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Fourth Essay Due (19th century American, early 20th century) |
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- Pound. "In a Station of the Metro," "Hugh Selwyn Mauberly" (okay to skim the opaque bits).
- T. S. Eliot. "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "The Wasteland."
If you like Eliot, try "The Dry Salvages" also.
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22 |
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Group 1, reading. |
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23 |
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- Auden. "As I Walked Out One Morning," "Funeral Blues," "Lullaby," "Musée des Beaux Arts," "In Memory of W. B. Yeats."
- Bishop. "The Fish," "Sestina," "The Moose," "One Art."
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Fifth Essay Due (Modernism) |
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24 |
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The reading will be selected, distributed, and taught in four small groups. |
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Sixth Essay Due |
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25 |
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Group 2, reading. |
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26 |
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Group 3, reading. |
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27 |
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Group 4, reading. |
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28 |
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Group 5, reading. |
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