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A. Janowitz
Office: Murray 039
Office Hours: Mon/Thu: 9-10
Class
Schedule
English 219
I. The Fictions
of Poetry
| Sept.
7 W |
Speaker, Occasion
and Tone
Anonymous, "The Three Ravens"
Randall Jarrell, "The Death of Ball Turret Gunner"
Muriel Rukeyser, "Absalom"
Florence Reece, "Which Side Are You On?"
William Carlos Williams, "Danse Russe"
Theodore Roethke, "Elegy for Jane"
Stevie Smith, "Not Waving but Drowning"
John Keats, "This Living Hand"
Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess"
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| Sept.
12 M |
Speaker, Occasion
and Tone
Anonymous, "The Three Ravens"
Randall Jarrell, "The Death of Ball Turret Gunner"
Muriel Rukeyser, "Absalom"
Florence Reece, "Which Side Are You On?"
William Carlos Williams, "Danse Russe"
Theodore Roethke, "Elegy for Jane"
Stevie Smith, "Not Waving but Drowning"
John Keats, "This Living Hand"
Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess"
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| Sept.
14 W |
Speaker,
Occasion and Tone
Anonymous, "The Three Ravens"
Randall Jarrell, "The Death of Ball Turret Gunner"
Muriel Rukeyser, "Absalom"
Florence Reece, "Which Side Are You On?"
William Carlos Williams, "Danse Russe"
Theodore Roethke, "Elegy for Jane"
Stevie Smith, "Not Waving but Drowning"
John Keats, "This Living Hand"
Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess" |
II. The Raw Materials
of Poetry
| Sept.
19 M |
Figuration:
Metaphor, Image, Symbol
Williams, "The Young Housewife"
Thomas Wyatt, "Whoso List to Hunt"
Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself, #6
H.D., "Oread"
Delmore Schwartz, "The Heavy Bear . . ."
Ted Hughes, "The Thought-Fox"
Sylvia Plath, "Tulips"
Dorothy Parker, "One Perfect Rose"
Josephine Johnson, "He Who Shall Turn"
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| Sept.
21 W |
Figuration:
Metaphor, Image, Symbol
Williams, "The Young Housewife"
Thomas Wyatt, "Whoso List to Hunt"
Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself, #6
H.D., "Oread"
Delmore Schwartz, "The Heavy Bear . . ."
Ted Hughes, "The Thought-Fox"
Sylvia Plath, "Tulips"
Dorothy Parker, "One Perfect Rose"
Josephine Johnson, "He Who Shall Turn"
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| Sept.
26 M |
PAPER #1
DUE
Figuration: Metaphor, Image, Symbol
Williams, "The Young Housewife"
Thomas Wyatt, "Whoso List to Hunt"
Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself, #6
H.D., "Oread"
Delmore Schwartz, "The Heavy Bear . . ."
Ted Hughes, "The Thought-Fox"
Sylvia Plath, "Tulips"
Dorothy Parker, "One Perfect Rose"
Josephine Johnson, "He Who Shall Turn"
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| Sept.
28 W |
Figuration:
Metaphor, Image, Symbol
Williams, "The Young Housewife"
Thomas Wyatt, "Whoso List to Hunt"
Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself, #6
H.D., "Oread"
Delmore Schwartz, "The Heavy Bear . . ."
Ted Hughes, "The Thought-Fox"
Sylvia Plath, "Tulips"
Dorothy Parker, "One Perfect Rose"
Josephine Johnson, "He Who Shall Turn"
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| Oct.
3 M |
Meter, Rhythm,
and Sound
Richard Wilbur, "Junk"
Marianne Moore, "Poetry"
Gerard Manley Hopkins, "As Kingfishers Catch Fire"
Philip Sidney, "With How Sad Steps, Oh Moon"
Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"
Dylan Thomas, "Fern Hill"
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| Oct
5 W |
Meter,
Rhythm, and Sound
Richard Wilbur, "Junk"
Marianne Moore, "Poetry"
Gerard Manley Hopkins, "As Kingfishers Catch Fire"
Philip Sidney, "With How Sad Steps, Oh Moon"
Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"
Dylan Thomas, "Fern Hill" |
III. Poetic Form
| Oct.
10 M |
Couplets, Blank
Verse
Ben Jonson, "On My First Son"
John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IX, ll. 192-289
Anne Finch, "A Nocturnal Reverie"
William Wordsworth, "Tintern Abbey"
Robert Browning, "Fra Lippo Lippi"
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Frost at Midnight"
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| Oct.
12 W |
PAPER #2
DUE
Couplets, Blank Verse
Ben Jonson, "On My First Son"
John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IX, ll. 192-289
Anne Finch, "A Nocturnal Reverie"
William Wordsworth, "Tintern Abbey"
Robert Browning, "Fra Lippo Lippi"
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Frost at Midnight"
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| Oct.
17 M |
Free Verse,
Collage
Christopher Smart, "Jubilate Agno"
Adrienne Rich, "Diving into the Wreck"
Allen Ginsberg, "Howl"
Isaac Rosenberg, "Break of Day in the Trenches"
T.S. Eliot, from The Waste Land
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| Oct.
19 W |
Free Verse,
Collage
Christopher Smart, "Jubilate Agno"
Adrienne Rich, "Diving into the Wreck"
Allen Ginsberg, "Howl"
Isaac Rosenberg, "Break of Day in the Trenches"
T.S. Eliot, from The Waste Land
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| Oct.
24 M |
The Sonnet
William Shakespeare, Sonnets 30, 55, 73, 116
John Donne, "Batter My Heart"
Wordsworth, "Westminster Bridge"
P.B. Shelley, "Ozymandias"
George Meredith, from Modern Love, #1
Hopkins, "No worst, there is none"
William Butler Yeats, "Leda and the Swan"
Edna St. Vincent Millay, "I Being Born . . . "
John Berryman, Sonnet 23
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| Oct.
26 W |
The Sonnet
William Shakespeare, Sonnets 30, 55, 73, 116
John Donne, "Batter My Heart"
Wordsworth, "Westminster Bridge"
P.B. Shelley, "Ozymandias"
George Meredith, from Modern Love, #1
Hopkins, "No worst, there is none"
William Butler Yeats, "Leda and the Swan"
Edna St. Vincent Millay, "I Being Born . . . "
John Berryman, Sonnet 23
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| Oct.
31 M |
PAPER #3
DUE
The Ode
Wordsworth, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality"
John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale"
Thomas Gray, "Ode on a Distant Prospect . . . "
Gray, "Ode on the Death of a favorite Cat . . . "
Allen Tate, "Ode to the Confederate Dead"
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| Nov.
2 W |
The Ode
Wordsworth, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality"
John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale"
Thomas Gray, "Ode on a Distant Prospect . . . "
Gray, "Ode on the Death of a favorite Cat . . . "
Allen Tate, "Ode to the Confederate Dead"
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IV. The Poet's
Archive
| Nov.
7 M |
Selected Poems,
W.B. Yeats
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| Nov.
9 W |
Selected Poems,
W.B. Yeats
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| Nov.
14 M |
Selected Poems,
W.B. Yeats
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| Nov.
16 W |
Selected Poems,
W.B. Yeats
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| Nov.
28 M |
Selections from
the poetry of Muriel Rukeyser (on handout)
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| Nov.
30 W |
Selections from
the poetry of Muriel Rukeyser (on handout)
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| Dec.
5 M |
Selections from
the poetry of Muriel Rukeyser (on handout)
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| Dec.
7 W |
PAPER # 4
DUE
Selections from the poetry of Muriel Rukeyser (on handout)
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