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Readings

Readings below are selections of texts and handouts used in class.
  • Byron on other poets (PDF)
  • John Donne, The Bait (PDF)
  • Lycidas: allusions and outline (PDF)
  • Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 11 (PDF)
  • Katherine Philips, Friendship in Embleme, or the Seal (PDF)
  • Two poems by Katherine Philips (PDF)
  • Walt Whitman, I Sing the Body Electric (PDF)
  • Walt Whitman, The Artilleryman's Vision (PDF)
  • Whitman on poetry, others on Whitman (PDF)
  • The Fascination of What's Difficult (PDF)