Tuesday, January 19
- In class
- Ice breaker
- Course overview
- Poetry before Modernism
- "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- "A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe
- "I heard a Fly buzz" by Emily Dickinson
- "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" by Walt Whitman
- Assignment
- Join class in Google Classroom
- Order your books!
- Write a 1-paragraph discussion of the characteristics of Romanticism you see in one of the following poems.
- “A Dream Within a Dream” by Edgar Allan Poe
- “I heard a Fly buzz” by Emily Dickinson
- “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” by Walt Whitman
- Respond to the question in Google Classroom.
- Readings:
- "A Retrospect" and "A Few Don'ts" by Ezra Pound
- "Preface to Some Imagist Poets" by Amy Lowell
- "Modernism" in Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (see syllabus for link).
- "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter" by Ezra Pound
- "A Decade" by Amy Lowell
- "Oread" by H.D.
- "Preludes" by T.S. Eliot
- "Harlem" by Langston Hughes
- "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams
- "Buffalo Bill 's" by E.E. Cummings
Thursday, January 21
- In class
- "A Retrospect" and "A Few Don'ts" by Ezra Pound
- "Preface to Some Imagist Poets" by Amy Lowell
- "Modernism" in Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (see syllabus for link).
- "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter" by Ezra Pound
- "A Decade" by Amy Lowell
- "Oread" by H.D.
- "Preludes" by T.S. Eliot
- "Harlem" by Langston Hughes
- "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams
- "Buffalo Bill 's" by E.E. Cummings
- Assignment
- Readings:
- "Black Mountain School" in Princeton Encyclopedia
- "Projective Verse" by Charles Olson
- "Robert Creeley's Radical Poetics" by Marjorie Perloff
- Charles Olson's bio and at least two of his poems.
- Robert Duncan bio and at least two of his poems.
- Writing:
- Discuss the characteristics of Modernism in one of the poems above (from "Oread" to the end of the list).
- Readings: