Rough Draft due: Tuesday, April 30th
Final Draft due: Thursday, May 1
Length: 5-7pp
Format: double-spacing, 12-pt font, in Times New Roman or a similar font. No Courier. No Ariel. Please.
Heading: Name and date, single-spaced at the top. Optional title.
O'Hara, "Personism" Ashbery, "Paradoxes and Oxymorons" Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow" (or an O'Hara poem) Any of the criticism on O'Hara, Ashbery, and/or Williams
Any assigned Ginsberg poem Any assigned Whitman poem Any of the respective criticism
Stevens, "Anecdote of a Jar" Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow" Any of the respective criticism
Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow" or Stevens, "Anecdote of a Jar" Graham, "The Way Things Work" Mitchell, "Ekphrasis and the Other" or criticism on one or more of the poems
Plath, "Lazarus" and/or "Daddy" Eliot, "Prufrock" Britzolakis on Plath, plus any of the other previously linked Plath criticism
Mina Loy, "Apology of Genius" plus the linked criticism Adrienne Rich, "Diving into the Wreck" [N] Criticism on Rich.
Eliot, "Prufrock" Ginsberg, "Howl" Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass Any suitable criticism via the Modern American Poetry site or other resources
Yeats, "Leda and the Swan" [N] O'Hara, "An Image of Leda" Graham, "Fission" [x]
Koch, "Talking to Patrizia" O'Hara, "Having a Coke with You" O'Hara, "Personism"
Any combination of two Dickinson poems in Norton (with some of the criticism) Any of the Donne Holy Sonnets in Norton.
Marianne Moore, "Poetry" [N 760] with the linked criticism Loy, "Apologia for Genius" or "Lunar Baedeker" with the linked criticism (more choices on the way)